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01Undated

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

A.A. Gill / quote

02Undated

America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

A.A. Gill / quote