“You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.”
― Things Fall Apart
― Things Fall Apart
“Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
“He would conclude that nothing was real except chance.”
― City of Glass
― City of Glass
“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.”
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“They were careless people ... they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made . . . . ”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
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