"We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything."

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Source : Jenny Han (2011). “It's Not Summer Without You”, p.273, Simon and Schuster

Jenny Han

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“Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.”

Source : Lewis H. Lapham (1997). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, p.64, Verso
“It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments”
“Everybody knows everybody's dying, that's why people are as good as they are.”
“Every day there are many opportunities to be nice---or not so nice.”
“I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia.”
“Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.”
“The thing which we speak of as beauty does not have to be sought in distant lands. . . . It is here about us or it is nowhere.”
“As a child, I had a deck of Marvel top trumps. You can get top trumps with racing cars, or fighter planes, or football players... I had all of the Marvel superheroes and super-villains you could get, and I used to play them with my friends. They were all listed according to their height and weight and agility and their super-powers.”

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