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A much needed book for a world fueled on scoring systems defined / imposed by institutions and bureaucracies. Perhaps ten years too late after social media was created.
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“So, what makes something a story?” He paused to think about it. “A good story always tells you something about people—how they live, and how they delude themselves.”
“to someone from nowhere, every movement turns into a return”
― Flights
― Flights
“Black and White always look good. A lot of it has to do with the lighting, designed to hit their faces just right. Someday you want the light to hit your face like that. To look like the hero. Or for a moment to actually be the hero”
― Interior Chinatown
― Interior Chinatown
“Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.”
― Little Fires Everywhere
― Little Fires Everywhere
“This is it. The root of it all. The real history of yellow people in America. Two hundred years of being perpetual foreigners.”
― Interior Chinatown
― Interior Chinatown
“He is asking to be treated like an American. A real american. Cuz honestly, when you think about American, what color do you see? white? black? We (the Chinese) have been here 200 years....the German, the Dutch, the Italian, they came here in the turn of century; they are Americans. Why doesn't this face ("yellow") register as American? Is it because we make the story too complicated?”
― Interior Chinatown
― Interior Chinatown
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