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“Um," I asked, "isn't the whole point about being a slave that you don't have a choice to be anything else?" Prettying up the word slave with the adjective-noun constructions makes "enslaved African" sound nonchalant. As in "Those were the cabins of the jolly leprechauns.”
― The Partly Cloudy Patriot
― The Partly Cloudy Patriot

“No cowboys for Canada. Canada got Mounties instead - Dudley Do-Right, not John Wayne. It's a mind-set of "Here I come to save the day" versus "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.”
― The Partly Cloudy Patriot
― The Partly Cloudy Patriot

“The students we saw were all bright, attractive, and polite, and the teachers all seemed to be smart and dedicated, and I began to appreciate the benefits of a private school education. If only I'd had the opportunity to attend a place like this, who knows what I might have become? Perhaps instead of a mere blood-spatter analyst who slunk away at night to kill without conscience, I could have become a doctor, or a physicist, or even a senator who slunk away at night to kill without conscience. It was terribly sad to think of all my wasted potential.”
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“The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus

“There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.”
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

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