"I don't try to be satirical. I just try to get what's in my head on the page. And that part is hard for me to do. It takes a long, long time to make it poetic, somewhat essayistic."

-- Paul Beatty

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“An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.”
“Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels like a mean joke, like God's advisers are Muammar Qaddafi and Phyllis Schlafly.”
“My daughter's birth was like a rebirth for me.”
“He who prays most receives most.”
“I love to write music. I love melodies, I love playing guitar. I just do it for fun.”
“The main thing you can change is how you perceive yourself. Stop looking in the mirror and realize that youre living for yourself, not other people.”
“Just because you're good at something, does that mean you're born to do it?”
“In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings will turn out the right number of graduates. Yet the teachers who actually instruct the future citizens of our country are more often than not miserably paid. If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame.”

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