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“How come Chinese people are never important?” I asked Melody. “What do you mean?” she said. “We’re important.” “No, we’re not,” I said. “You never see a Chinese person in the movies or in a play or in a book.
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Milan Kundera
“If she couldn't love her fourteen-year-old schoolboy, she could at least love cubism. p. 91”
Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera
“Behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil, and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting syllables in unison. p. 100”
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“I ask the reader- is there any reason to believe that these idiots will fail to blow up the world?

The answer is: Only by accident will the present power elite, in this country and others, fail to blow up the world.”
Daniel Pinkwater, Young Adults

Todd Strasser
“What I mean is," Robert said nervously, "the whole idea of The Wave is that the people in it have to support it. If we're really a community, we all have to agree.”
Todd Strasser, The Wave

Oscar Wilde
“What is a sensitive person?” said the Cracker to the Roman Candle. “A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people’s toes,” answered the Roman Candle in a low whisper; and the Cracker nearly exploded with laughter.”
Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Tales

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