"I am concussed," I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis."
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"Ben's tongue is like sunscreen...It's good for your health and should be applied liberally."
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"A small olive-skinned creature who had hit puberty but never hit it very hard, Ben had been my best friend since fifth grade, when we both finally owned up to the fact that neither of us was likely to attract anyone else as a best friend."
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"Being a person, I had come to realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people do not know how to be people unless and until they learn from other people."
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"The Z’s will kill us all, and then the Z’s will die out and in sixty years there will be no one to remember our silly war, Caroline’s wasted ammunition, my year of zombic survivalism, Rene DesCartes’s musings, or Michelangelo’s sculptures. And that is really only the sadness here as I drink a thousand-dollar bottle of wine down here in the cellar: We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them."
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"The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company."
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"I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be... but God clearly says, "those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility."
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"All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a state of "learned helplessness" without hope to change their lives. Likewise, the wealthy can walk in a state of "learned blindness" ignoring the desperation of the local & global poor."
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"In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck."
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"How can you seperate those things though? The people are the place is the people."
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"Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt"
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"The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves"
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"Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy."
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"The light filtered throught the leaves and pine needles above as if through lace, the ground spotted in shadow."
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"Why is it upset? Shouldn't it be downset?"
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"Great news for someone is always bad news for someone else"
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"I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance."
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"Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and weaknesses."--Democritus An Abundance of Katherines---John Green"
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"I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice."
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"Right. I'd forgotten about her.' He shook his head. 'That keeps happening."
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