"Best to let the broken glass be broken……" — Colson Whitehead
"Best to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let the cracks between things widen until they are no longer cracks but the new places for things. That was where they were now. The world wasn't ending: it had ended and now they were in the new place. They could not recognize it because they had never seen it before."
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33 Quotes by Colson Whitehead
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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…
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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…
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Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American. ... Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch…
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New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a…
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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,…
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It had been a humdrum couple of days, reaffirming his belief in reincarnation: everything was so boring that this could…
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There will be no redemption because the men who run this place do not want redemption. They want to be…
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