“Anybody can be a Five Percenter,” said Allah, “white, I don’t care who they are, could be a Five Percenter, ’cus a Five Percenter is one that is civilized.”97
“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.”
― A History of Reading
― A History of Reading
“Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing”
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“Holding me in his arms, the way that poems hold clauses.”
― The Ministry of Time
― The Ministry of Time
“he looked oddly formal, as if he was the sole person in serif font.”
― The Ministry of Time
― The Ministry of Time
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