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“But life is not evens and odds and solving for x. And sadness? Sadness is an equation made of all variables.”

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Book:The Start of Me and You

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“Another day I walked out of town to do a bit of climbing in the mountains behind the airport. I scrambled up and down slopes that contained some of the oldest rocks in the world, isotope-dated at 3,800 billion years, remnants, so the geological rumor goes, of the earth's earliest terrestrial crust.”

Climbing Natural History Page 176

Book:Last Places: A Journey in the North

Source: Last Places: A Journey in the North

“On the front flap, the reader was informed that the Testamento geometrico was really three books, 'each independent, but functionally correlated by the sweep of the whole,' and then it said 'this work representing the final distillation of Dieste's reflections and research on Space, the notion of which is involved in any methodical discussion of the fundamentals of Geometry.”

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Book:2666

Source: 2666

“Every time I walked into an examination hall, handed in a paper, signed up for a club, participated in a contest…the mad rush of hope in my blood, only for my optimism to sour into disappointment.”

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Book:I Am Not Jessica Chen

Source: I Am Not Jessica Chen

“Rejection will rule you or fuel you. Your choice.”

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Author:Richie Norton

“I think there’s a pain somewhere in the room,” said Mrs. Gradgrind, “but I couldn’t positively say that I have got it.”

Hard Times 186

Author:Charles Dickens

“...there's nothing more depressing than bad capitalism.”

Capitalism 204

Book:Take the Cannoli

Source: Take the Cannoli

“Too few of us from the Black Power generation and the movements to take power in cities through the election of black elected officials have told our story. Hence there is very little understanding of the agenda for change we outlined for black people and America in the 1960s and early 1970s. We wanted self-determination, and end to racism, and economic security. It is an agenda that was never fulfilled, and hence the title of my book, Unfinished Agenda.”

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Book:Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power

Source: Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power

“Later that year, the Voting Rights Act opened the door for thousands to register for the first time.”

Black History Urban Politics

Book:Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power

Source: Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power

“I had no way of predicting that Selma to Montgomery was indeed to be the last great civil rights march of the era, and that everything afterward would indeed by 'post-civil rights.”

Civil Rights Black History Urban Politics

Book:Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power

Source: Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power

“But despite the scarcity of confrontation with whites in our neighborhood, race and racism permeated every aspect of our lives. Our parents taught us that in order to succeed, we 'had to be twice as good as white folks.' We were constantly being prepared to enter a world dominated by whites.”

Civil Rights Black History Urban Politics

Book:Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power

Source: Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power

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