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“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity.”
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“Grief is a place a person goes alone.”
― Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
― Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
“She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?”
― Song of Solomon
― Song of Solomon
“For poverty is miserable. It is ugly, disorganized, rowdy, sick, uneducated, violent, afflicted with crime. Poverty demeans human dignity. The demanding tone, the inarticulateness, the implied violence deeply offended us. We didn’t want to see it on our sacred monumental grounds. We wanted it out of sight and out of mind.”
― Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
― Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
“One cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error. I propose to take our countrymen’s claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
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