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Amina Rayan said:
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Wow, Giovanni's Room was pure magic. Beautifully written, beautiful story, everything was beautiful. His ability to capture, describe and portray characters and situations blew my mind! I cant wait to read more by baldwin, what a gifted, brilliant ma
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“You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn’t he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.”
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“Cops, Hoshino concluded, not for the first time in his life, are just gangsters who get paid by the state.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“Er trat ruhig und gelassen auf den Tisch zu. Ohne sich vorzustellen - >Ihr wißt, wer ich bin, und wer ihr seid, interessiert mich nicht<, schien diese Unhöflichkeit zu besagen -, begann er mit fachmännischer Trockenheit die sachlichen Anordnungen.”
― Chess Story
― Chess Story
“Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.”
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“It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.”
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