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Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead

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If Pepper was not mistaken, Carney’s father was the first person to take him there—Big Mike was a proponent of a proper meal before a robbery. Breaking a guy’s leg or casing a warehouse didn’t necessarily require nutritional prep, but a ...more

Lessons

by Ian McEwan

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“It was either hilarious or it was tragic, that people should go about their daily business in the conventional way when they knew there was this.”
― Ian McEwan, Lessons

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“No Tank Tops, the sign had said at Youth Guidance. Because it was presumed the parents didn’t know better than to show up to court looking like hell. The sign might have said Your Poverty Reeks.”
― Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room

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“A life lived in a simulation is still a life.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

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“He suspected he had brushed against a fundamental law of the universe: such ecstasy must compromise his freedom. That was its price.”
― Ian McEwan, Lessons

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“The Greeks were right to invent their gods as argumentative unpredictable punitive members of a lofty elite. If he could believe in such all-too-human gods they would be the ones to fear. 4 In the third week after Alissa’s disappearance Roland set about imposing order on the overstuffed bookshelves around the table just off the kitchen.”
― Ian McEwan, Lessons

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