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The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

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what was the point of sharing good news with someone who couldn’t be happy for you?

“I suspect that God’s plan, whatever it is, works on a scale too large to admit our mortal tribulations; that in a single lifetime, accidents and happenstance determine more than we care to admit; and that the best we can do is to try to align ourselves with what we feel is right and construct some meaning out of our confusion, and with grace and nerve play at each moment the hand that we’re dealt.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land: The powerful political memoir from the former US President

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“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
― Noam Chomsky

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“It was easy to root for the winners. No, he liked the punch-drunk ones, half walking at mile twenty-three, tongues flapping like Labradors. Tumbling across the finish line by hook or by crook, feet pounded to bloody meat in their Nikes. The laggards and limpers who weren’t running the course but running deep into their character—down into the cave to return to the light with what they found.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

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