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Pop-Pop was still a ‘holy-roller.’ (Iris liked that phrase; she imagined a steamroller the color of the Golden Calf trundling down the streets, flattening sinners on the pavement.)
“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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“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
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“The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do.”
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“love is just a further impetus, not something that will prevent us going forward. We do not realize that those who genuinely wish us well want us to be happy and are prepared to accompany us on that journey.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
Caribbean Readers
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This group is for readers who enjoy (or would like to learn more about) works by writers from the Caribbean and its diaspora... All languages welcome. ...more
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