Samaritan Quotes

“I feel that we read to learn new things, sure, absolutely, but more often than not, what we really get out of the good books we read is self-recognition. We read and discover stuff about life that we already knew, except that we didn’t know we knew it until we read it in a particular book. And this self-recognition, this discovering ourselves in the writings of others can be very exciting, can make us feel a little less isolated inside our own thing and a little more connected to the larger world.” There was a uniform glaze out there, and, worried about boring them, Ray picked up the pace. “OK. So what we have here is James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the”
― Richard Price, Samaritan

“He restrained himself from another wisecrack, infinitesimally but with great effort attempting to close down his nightclub approach to education; every positive change in his life, every minute increment in character, acquired more or less through shame.”
― Richard Price, Samaritan