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“Those who are on the bottom always want to be on top, those who are on top want to stay on top, and one way or another they always reach the point where they’re kicking and spitting at each other.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

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“The type of guys Pepper sought were single-room-occupancy men, hot-plate men, shitty tippers who never passed a pay phone without checking for errant dimes, and they dreamed of fire.”
― Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto

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“Physicists calculated that the initial impact that created the Chicxulub crater in Central America would have been powerful enough to blow many terrestrial dinosaurs in the vicinity off into space.”
― Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

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“A plane dragged black letters through the air: Happy Birthday America—200 Years of Liberty and Independence. Who paid for it? He couldn’t tell, so he added: Love, Buckwheat.”
― Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto

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“We’ve been a long time without a nuclear war. Yes. Well, it’s probably like any bankruptcy. The longer you’re able to put it off the worse it’s going to be. The next great war wont arrive until everyone who remembers the last one is dead.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

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