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""Empathy lies at the heart of 'Gatsby,' like so many other great novels--the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence." -- Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi" — Dec 06, 2016 06:41AM
""Empathy lies at the heart of 'Gatsby,' like so many other great novels--the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence." -- Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi" — Dec 06, 2016 06:41AM
“On a reservation, Indian men who abandon their children are treated worse than white fathers who do the same thing. It’s because white men have been doing that forever and Indian men have just learned how. That’s how assimilation can work.”
― The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
― The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
“The moonlight came in with the sounds of the city: juke boxes, automobiles, curses, dogs barking, radios … We were all in it together.”
― Ham on Rye
― Ham on Rye
“Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth an' not do no murder.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“When you been in stir a little while, you can smell a question comin' from hell to breakfast.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“The dark swallowed him, but his dragging footsteps could be heard a long time after he had gone, footsteps along the road; and a car came by on the highway, and its lights showed the ragged man shuffling along the road, his head hanging down and his hands in the black coat pockets.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
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