“[I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
“America understands itself as God’s handiwork, but the black body is the clearest evidence that America is the work of men.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real?”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
“There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of living. We are never so wise as when we live in this moment.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
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