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“There is a kind of white that is more than white, and this was that kind of white. There is a kind of white that repels everything that is inferior to it, and that is almost everything. This was that kind of white. There is a kind of white that is not created by bleach but that itself is bleach. This was that kind of white. This white was aggressively white.”
― Chromophobia
― Chromophobia
“Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.”
― The Towers of Trebizond
― The Towers of Trebizond
“And now indeed this substance with its precious humility becomes, through its indestructibility, the most faithful bearer of man's message. As far back as one goes in time, the works of humanity from prehistoric times have reached us not through stone which crumbles and wears away, or through metal which oxidizes and becomes like powder, but through slabs of pottery, the writing on which is as clear today as it was under the stiletto of the scribe who traced it.”
― A Potter's Book
― A Potter's Book
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