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If you’re not sure where to begin, start with the following: Chop Shop, God Bless the Child, Winter’s Bone, Ballast, Grapes of Wrath, Heroes for Sale, Make Way for Tomorrow, City Lights, Claudine, King of the Hill, The Cool World, Killer of
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“When it comes to dressing well, American culture is so self-fulfilled that it has not only disregarded this courtesy of self-presentation, but has turned that disregard into a virtue. "We are too superior/busy/cool/not-uptight to bother about how we look to other people, and so we can wear pajamas to school and underwear to the mall.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
“Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.”
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