This is simply a quote I liked from a book I read quite a while back that I have even posted about previously.
"That was the funny thing about a dictatorship: it was great for culture. If there was one sure way Pinochet could support poetry, it was by staging a military coup, shooting a bunch of people, or tossing some tear gas around once in a while. Literature became not a pointless abstraction, but a pointed one. The history books were empty but the poets spoke volumes."
-Patrick Symmes from Chasing Che
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