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“While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
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“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
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“It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.”
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“When it comes to dressing well, American culture is so self-fulfilled that it has not only disregarded this courtesy of self-presentation, but has turned that disregard into a virtue. "We are too superior/busy/cool/not-uptight to bother about how we look to other people, and so we can wear pajamas to school and underwear to the mall.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
“The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.”
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