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Giovanni’s Room
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read in January 2016
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Amina Rayan Amina Rayan said: " 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 ...more "

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Warsan Shire
“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.”
Warsan Shire

Haruki Murakami
“Cops, Hoshino concluded, not for the first time in his life, are just gangsters who get paid by the state.”
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Stefan Zweig
“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.”
Stefan Zweig, Chess Story

Junot Díaz
“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.”
Junot Díaz

Warsan Shire
“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.”
Warsan Shire

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