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Ivan Espineda
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“Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.”
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“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”
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“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Black Boy
― Black Boy
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