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Steven Decker
“I must admit that if there was ever going to be a woman to take my mind and heart off of Annette, it would have been Aideen.”
Steven Decker, Addicted to Time

Simone Collins
“People experience anger when their expectations around how they should be treated don’t align with their actual treatment (or when they expect a thing to happen based on some series of actions and it does not happen).”
Simone Collins, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing

Leon Uris
“Nordstrom.” “Would you care for some tea or a brandy?” “No .... Nicole, I know”
Leon Uris, Topaz

William Kely McClung
“The strange dance with the Infected continued, but the Loopers in the middle of the room were building into a frenzy, playing or fighting or maybe fucking each other — who the hell knew? Jessie fought not to throw up at the thought.”
William Kely McClung, LOOP

Barack Obama
“I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s learning and Baldwin’s love and Langston’s humor eventually succumbed to its corrosive force, each man finally forced to doubt art’s redemptive power, each man finally forced to withdraw, one to Africa, one to Europe, one deeper into the bowels of Harlem, but all of them in the same weary flight, all of them exhausted, bitter men, the devil at their heels.”
Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

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Krassi ...
361 books | 909 friends

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144 books | 49 friends

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Chantel...
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