"It had been a humdrum couple of days, reaffirming his belief in reincarnation: everything was so boring that this could not be the first time he'd experienced it."

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Source : "Zone One". Book by Colson Whitehead, October 6, 2011.

Colson Whitehead

#Couple Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Belief Quotes

“I can't really remember my life without movies.”
“Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?”
“I think the Clintons are brilliant. I've never met a person as intelligent as Bill, and I think Hillary is right up there with him. They're too smart for Washington.”
“Sometimes, when you're this adventurous, you rip the crotch out of your pants.”
“If we want to change that status quo, we might have to work outside of those rules because the legal pathways available to us have been structured precisely to make sure we donâ€™t make any substantial change.”
“This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.”
“ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.”
“Ageism is the racism of the gay world. We really believe that age-and all of our fears that it carries-will "rub off" on us, the way that racists once believed blackness would.”

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