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“His crème de meth just wore off,” Mayhew explained. “Drops you in a hurry, doesn’t it, kid?”
“Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world 'No, You Move.”
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“They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“To yell “black-on-black crime” is to shoot a man and then shame him for bleeding.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
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