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“Strivers grasped for something better-and crooks schemes about how to manipulate the present system. The world as it might be versus the world as it was. But perhaps Carney was being too stark. Plenty of crooks were strivers, and plenty of strivers bent the law.”
― Harlem Shuffle
― Harlem Shuffle
“Entrepreneur?” Pepper said the last part like manure. “That’s just a hustler who pays taxes.”
― Harlem Shuffle
― Harlem Shuffle
“At the end of the day when she propped him up and told him he could do it, he puzzled over these alien things she offered him. Kindness and faith, he didn’t know which box to put them in.”
― Harlem Shuffle
― Harlem Shuffle
“At first, it didn't sound like Carney. But then, Big Mike had tended his crop of grudges like a farmer, inspecting the rows, taking care they got enough water and fertilizer so that they grew big and healthy.”
― Harlem Shuffle
― Harlem Shuffle
“If you believed in the holy circulation of envelopes, everything that went down happened because a man took an envelope and didn’t do his job. An envelope is an envelope. Disrespect the order and the whole system breaks down.”
― Harlem Shuffle
― Harlem Shuffle
Michele’s 2025 Year in Books
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780 books
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98 friends
110 books
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382 books
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397 books
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830 books
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251 books
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