Quotes!

quotes that i found interesting...

“Leopold's letters and memos, forever badgering someone about acquiring a colony, seem to be in the voice of a person starved for love as a child and now filled with an obsessive desire for an emotional substitute, the way someone become embroiled in an endless dispute with a brother or sister over an inheritance, or with a neighbor over a property boundary. The urge for more can become insatiable, and its apparent fulfillment seems only to exacerbate that early sense of deprivation and to stimulate the need to acquire still more” (Hochschild 38).

“He has a script: the dream of a colony that had been through his head since he was a teenager. But he has as yet no stage, no cast” but “one day in September 1877,” the “Stage and star have appeared, and the play can begin” (Hochschild 46).

Stanley -> "The thin-skinned Stanley was remarkably frank about his tendency to take any show of hostility as a deadly insult. It is almost as if vengeance were the force driving him across the continent" (Hochschild 49).

"Stanley was always uncomfortable with anyone whose talents might outshine his own" (Hochschild 49). -> Even though this quote is short, I think it is important to realize that Stanley was a very proud man who loved the fame of being an explorer as much as the next person