"New York City in life was much like……" — Colson Whitehead
"New York City in life was much like New York City in death. It was still hard to get a cab, for example."
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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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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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More Cab Quotes
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We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take…
— Robert Benchley
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Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.
— Johnny Carson
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I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.
— John Cleese
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If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able…
— Danny Hillis
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My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was…
— Bob Cousy
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How much for the bottle, put it on my tab. Hop out like a model all them foreign tags. Get…
— Wiz Khalifa
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Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early…
— Jesse Jackson
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Here's how you know that you're really drunk: when you get into a taxi cab and you think the fare…
— Dane Cook
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What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what's important. I mean, I don't…
— Joel Siegel
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It's probably similar to being in New York City and having a cab driver behind you and you're driving too…
— Barry Sanders
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I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
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No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long; you're just sad, that's all.…
— Audrey Hepburn
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