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Ties
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Ties is a novel full of containers, both literal and symbolic. In spite of them, things go missing.
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“Love springs from the ability to prefer imperfection over perfection.”
― Vend
― Vend
“I have always been more appalled by man’s apathy in the face of horror than by the horror itself.”
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“Or perhaps it is a matter of those despised parts of our natures that are normally frittered away as harmless foibles giving rise in times of war to monsters.”
― The Rope
― The Rope
“Hating, after all, was a drier form of drowning.”
― The Woman Next Door
― The Woman Next Door
“Disadvantaged white people are not erased by discussions of disadvantages facing people of color, just as brain cancer is not erased by talking about breast cancer. They are two different issues with two different treatments, and they require two different conversations.”
― So You Want to Talk About Race
― So You Want to Talk About Race
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