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"*The Day They Burned the Books*
The light weight prose flows like breeze and carries the melancholic note quite smoothly in this story. The experiences of a white Creole childhood come alive in vivid yet sharp dialogues. The undercurrent of tension between it racial or interpersonal etches a part of you but doesn’t drag it down." — May 08, 2025 01:54AM
"*The Day They Burned the Books*
The light weight prose flows like breeze and carries the melancholic note quite smoothly in this story. The experiences of a white Creole childhood come alive in vivid yet sharp dialogues. The undercurrent of tension between it racial or interpersonal etches a part of you but doesn’t drag it down." — May 08, 2025 01:54AM
“It’s just that I suffer very eloquently”
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“The hungry have a grievance against those who have enough, and those who have enough have a grievance against the hungry. Yes... hunger stupefies and maddens a man and makes him savage; hunger is not a potato. When a man is starving he uses bad language, and steals, and may do worse.... One must realize that.”
― The Wife, and Other Stories
― The Wife, and Other Stories
“Certain emotions bridge the years and link unlikely places.”
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“Don't forget that dragons are only guardians of treasures and one fights them for what they keep - not for themselves...”
― Letters and Journals
― Letters and Journals
“His secretive nature detested the purpose of all interviews, their oppressive intimacy, their inescapable reality.”
― Call for the Dead
― Call for the Dead
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