"A monster is a person who has stopped pretending."
"It had been a humdrum couple of days, reaffirming his belief in reincarnation: everything was so boring that this could not be the first time he'd experienced it."
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Source: Zone One. Book by Colson Whitehead, October 6, 2011.
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