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“Crime isn't a scourge, people are. Crime is just how folks talk to each other sometimes.”

Book:Crook Manifesto

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Crook Manifesto

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Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead is an American novelist known for his distinctive literary style and profound insights into historical themes. His works cover a range of topics from slavery to modern urban life, with his 'New York Trilogy' and 'The Underground Railroad' being particularly notable. more

“It was as if he took the complexity of human beings as a personal affront, the maddening inconsistency of human beings, their contradictions which they made no attempt to wipe out or reconcile, their mixture of idealism and concupiscence, grandeur and pettiness, truth and lies. They were not to be taken seriously any more than a cockroach deserves serious consideration.”

People Humans Humanity Human Beings Complexity Inconsistency Contradictions

Book:Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

Source: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

“Human sanity was a poor, fragile thing at best, she thought. Hatred stupidity devotion greed the four horsemen of the new apocalypse. Yet she loved these wrecked people and wanted to save them from the dark jinn who fed, watered and made manifest the darkness within themselves. To love one human being was to begin to love them all. To love two was to be hooked forever, helpless in the grip of love.”

People Love Humans Human Beings Affection Sanity Fragility

Book:Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

Source: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

“The real smile is the one that comes from the heart, no matter what life brings.”

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