Paul Beatty

The Sellout

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  • Mihail Ryzhikovhas quoted5 years ago
    Be it ancient Rome or modern-day America, you’re either citizen or slave. Lion or Jew. Guilty or innocent. Comfortable or uncomfortable.
  • Mihail Ryzhikovhas quoted5 years ago
    it ancient Rome or modern-day America, you’re either citizen or slave. Lion or Jew. Guilty or innocent. Comfortable or uncomfortable.
  • gal3011has quoted5 years ago
    The problem with closure is that once you have a taste of it, you want it in every little aspect of your life.
  • gal3011has quoted5 years ago
    Once, while watching my father typing away at his desk, I asked him where his ideas came from. He turned around, his tongue thick with Scotch whiskey, and said, “The real question is not where do ideas come from but where do they go.”
  • Elinahas quoted6 years ago
    America’s newest race, the Celebrity
  • Elinahas quoted6 years ago
    “It’s illegal to yell ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theater, right?”
    “It is.”
    “Well, I’ve whispered ‘Racism’ in a post-racial world.”
  • Elinahas quoted6 years ago
    The problem with closure is that once you have a taste of it, you want it in every little aspect of your life
  • Elinahas quoted6 years ago
    Floating on my back, I saw the North Star flicker through the steam rising from the water, pointing to a freedom that I didn’t even know if I needed.
  • Elinahas quoted6 years ago
    “Those are the best dreams, the ones that feel real.”
  • Elinahas quoted6 years ago
    problem is that we don’t know whether integration is a natural or an unnatural state. Is integration, forced or otherwise, social entropy or social order?
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