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"I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people."
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"The story becomes clearer with time."

"If you wish gain understanding, turn away from evil."

"The best way to easily identify a counterfeit currency is to have a full exposure to the original currency. If you don't know your true vision, any satanic vision can cross your way and you might not know it."

"Look beyond what you see."

"It is hard to befool a fool who has already been fooled so many times."

"A mind that tastes the grief obtains a good chance to travel to the Land of Wisdom!"

"Troubles teaches us what we fail to learn."
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"The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book."


"I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that."


"I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got."


"There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how."


"I stood there a long while, staring at that tree. It looked so strongSo beautiful. Hurt right down the middleBut alive and well. Cee touched my shoulderLightly. Frank? Yes? Come on, brother. Let's go home."


"Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and explicit ideology but of its ideas as well; it can dismiss the difficult, arduous work writers do to make an art that becomes and remains part of and significant within a human landscape."
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