"Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you……" — Colson Whitehead
"Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?"
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33 Quotes by Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead has 33 quotes on this site.
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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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Best to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let…
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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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