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“Conflicting stories continue to circulate concerning the death of the President. A second White House announcement has now called attention to the President's schedule for the day, pointing out that no mention is made there of dying. Also released was the President's schedule for tomorrow, wherein there also appears to be no plan on the part of the President or his advisers for him to die. "I think it would be best," said the White House Bilge Secretary, "in the light of these schcedules, to wait for a statement, one way or another, from the President himself.”
― Philip Roth, Our Gang

tags: death, poetry

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“That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business listens and goes on eating--and then he eats you up.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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“An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done 'heard' bout you just what they hope done happened.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

tags: envy-and-attitude, human-nature

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“If I should say that he is a victim of injustice, then I would be asking by implication for sympathy; and if one insists upon looking at this boy as a victim of injustice, he will be swamped by a feeling of guilt so strong as to be indistinguishable from hate. Of all things, men do not like to feel that they are guilty of wrong, and if you make them feel guilt, they will try desperately to justify it on any grounds; but, failing that, and seeing no immediate solution that will set things right without too much cost to their lives and property, they will kill that which evoked in them, the condemning sense of guilt. And this is true of all men- whether they be white or black -it is a peculiar and powerful, but common need.”
― Richard Wright, Native Son

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