Michael Ignatieff Quote

Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel of memory through which fierce and unrequited longings surge, longings that define and shape a whole life.


True Patriot Love: Four Generations in Search of Canada (2009)


Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel...

Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel...

Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel...

Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel...