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“Film and television people had more generosity in their hearts than novelists, especially more than poets. Poets were like red pandas; from afar they seemed cute and gentle, but if they sensed a threat or competition, they would rip your hand off. Novelists were like bearded dragons. They had to be raised alone in terrariums, away from other bearded dragons, or they would eat one another.”
— Apr 24, 2026 04:29AM
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Naomi
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“Through the large window behind her was a view of the freeway in the distance. She stared out at its gray morass. Growing up on the East Coast, Jane had imagined California as mysterious, glamorous, sunbaked. She had not predicted this Los Angeles—antiseptic, asphalt, glitterless, and hard. Or how much of Hollywood felt like an enormous ad agency.”
— Apr 24, 2026 05:12AM
Naomi
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“Black people wanted only a big yellow Victorian on the hill, not to be the white people who lived there.”
— Apr 23, 2026 05:18PM
Naomi
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“Jane’s father once told her that white people believed, deep in their hearts, that Black people would all choose to become white if they could. But Black people didn’t want to be white, he had told her. They only wanted to have what white people had. He said race was always about money, and money was always about race. That’s what white people didn’t understand.”
— Apr 23, 2026 05:17PM
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This book is fucking hilarious! I cannot stop laughing.
— Apr 23, 2026 01:11PM