"A monster is a person who has stopped pretending."

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Source : "A Psychotronic Childhood" by Colson Whitehead, www.newyorker.com. June 4, 2012.

Colson Whitehead

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“work is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me.”
“In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.”
“Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.”
“The secret of landscapes isn't creation...It's maintenance.”
“If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.”
“We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.”
“I left a couple of my foreigners out last week and they started talking in 'foreign'. I knew what they were saying: Blah, blah, blah, le b*** manager, ***** uselss b***!”

Source : "Said & Done" by Davis Hills, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2004.
“I'm in school every day. It depends on what it is that you do with all that free time when I'm not on the microphone. I'm reading, I'm studying. I love documentaries. I love learning what I don't know. And of course, I wouldn't suggest that particular lane for others.”

Source : Source: uproxx.com

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