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The world had changed a great deal, but the little rules, contracts, and customs had not, which meant the world hadn’t actually changed at all.
“Every morning, Mozasu and his men tinkered with the machines to fix the outcomes-there could only be a few winners and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones. How could you get angry at the ones who wanted to be in the game?”
― Pachinko
― Pachinko
“I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
“History has failed us, but no matter.”
― Pachinko
― Pachinko
“I knew I was lost inside the world, watching it and trying to understand why too often I felt like I was standing just beyond the frame - of everything.”
― Another Brooklyn
― Another Brooklyn
“My first step from the old white man was trees. Then air. Then birds. Then other people. But one day when I was sitting quiet and feeling like a motherless child, which I was, it come to me: that feeling of being part of everything, not separate at all. I knew that if I cut a tree, my arm would bleed. And I laughed and I cried and I run all around the house. I knew just what it was.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
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