"It is the faith and perseverance and single-mindedness with which Hitler has perfected his weapons of destruction that commands my admiration."

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If you are doing a piece about somebody, even if you admire them tremendously and express that in the piece, express that admiration, if they're not used to being written about, if they're civilians, [...] they're not used to seeing themselves through other people's eyes. So you will always see them from a slightly different angle than they see themselves, and they feel a little betrayed by that.

— Joan Didion