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Matthew Quick
“Sometimes you just have to pick a direction and make mistakes. Then you use what you learn from your failure to pick new, better directions so you can make more mistakes and keep learning.”
Matthew Quick, Every Exquisite Thing

John  Green
“Gatsby is a critique of the American Dream. The only people who end up rich or successful in the novel are the ones who start out that way. Almost everyone else ends up dead or destitute. And it’s a critique of the kind of vapid capitalism that can’t find anything more interesting to do with money than try to make more of it. The book lays bare the carelessness of the entitled rich—the kind of people who buy puppies but won’t take care of dogs, or who purchase vast libraries of books but never read any of them.”
John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

Colson Whitehead
“Racial prejudice rotted one's faculties.”
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

Matthew Quick
“Just because you're good at something doesn't mean you have to do it.”
Matthew Quick, Every Exquisite Thing

Colson Whitehead
“And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all its heart--that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn't exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. Yet here we are.”
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

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