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We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.
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As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us…
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A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.
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It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.
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Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.
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A society manufactures the heroes it requires.
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Isn't it great when you're a kid and the world is full of anonymous things? Everything is bright and mysterious until you…
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Best to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let the cracks…
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Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American. ... Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch closer to…
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New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for…
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In keeping with my family's affection for doomed product lines and hexed formats, we purchased a Betamax. The year before, we'd bought…
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It had been a humdrum couple of days, reaffirming his belief in reincarnation: everything was so boring that this could not be…
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London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws…
— Paul Verlaine
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Biking through New York's boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I…
— Charles Schumer
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Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright…
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
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I know there's Brooklyn and all the boroughs, but Manhattan specifically is so condensed that the energy is very vibrant. Everywhere you…
— Theo James
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Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able…
— Alan Moore
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We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists,…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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I live in Brooklyn. I moved here 14 years ago for the cheap rent. It was a little embarrassing because I was…
— Colson Whitehead
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Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it…
— John Bright
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