"We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them."

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Source : Colson Whitehead (2011). “Zone One”, p.214, Random House

Colson Whitehead

#People Quotes #Monsters Quotes

“It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.”
“Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to retrieve. It is as if he was sent to this earth with the sole purpose of writing this book.”
“The river is everywhere.”
“The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.”
“I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.”
“I had severed relations with the Romanian exiles who had become politically conservative and even extremely right wing; I was giving chess lessons to earn a living. Luckily we spoke quite a bit of French at home so it wasn't too difficult for me to write in my adopted language.”

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“Pray to God, but row towards shore.”
“We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.”

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