"His legs remembered the correct position for squatting……" — Colson Whitehead
"His legs remembered the correct position for squatting down with toys. He played. He fit the round male studs into the round female grooves. He got some thinking done as he hunkered down on his fallen-sleep legs."
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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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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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