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Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead

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If Pepper was not mistaken, Carney’s father was the first person to take him there—Big Mike was a proponent of a proper meal before a robbery. Breaking a guy’s leg or casing a warehouse didn’t necessarily require nutritional prep, but a ...more

Lessons

by Ian McEwan

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Bruce’s Quotes

“And these are only the ones I happen to know about. As soon as you discover you’re not the best, you throw it in and hate yourself. Same with relationships. You want too much and move on.”
― Ian McEwan, Lessons

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“The people who applaud the loudest, Lucrezia notes, are the ones who talked through the performance.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait

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“Life is messy, everybody makes mistakes because we’re all fucking stupid”
― Ian McEwan, Lessons

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“It was either hilarious or it was tragic, that people should go about their daily business in the conventional way when they knew there was this.”
― Ian McEwan, Lessons

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“How easy it was to drift through an unchosen life, in a succession of reactions to events. He”
― Ian McEwan, Lessons

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