"Paul Beatty for "The Sellout" sounds like a relevant story for our times. It's playful, uses deep thought and seems to be taking advantage of everything literature can do when tackling difficult issues."

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“Fear is the biggest motivator.”
“If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.”

Source : "William Wilberforce". Book by William Hague, 2007.
“Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.”

Source : Leo Durocher, Ed Linn (2009). “Nice Guys Finish Last”, p.22, University of Chicago Press
“I don't believe in a God. I don't believe in any of that stuff to determine my life or my goals or my direction. I just depend on myself.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.”
“This is an embarrassment of riches, and boy, am I happy to be embarrassed.”
“I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every difficulty is foreseen, and precautions taken for meeting or avoiding it. Victory awaits him who has everything in order, luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time, this is called bad luck.”

Source : Roald Amundsen (2013). “The South Pole”, p.222, BoD – Books on Demand
“I didn't go to Harvard because I thought they had good academics. I went because they had crappy enough sports so they'd let me play.”

Source : "Not My Job: We Quiz Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse On Peaches". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. May 20, 2017.

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