Colson Whitehead Quotes
Colson Whitehead Quotes
I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I'll do it after the apocalypse, assuming we still have helium and weak-gripped children.
4727 As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable plan or some sort of formulation about how best to move through the world. An idea that will let us be. Protect us and keep us safe. But a weapon nonetheless.
1206 Weeks passed, but my Word-A-Day Calendar was stuck on "motherfucker.
2778 Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.
4002 They jostled one another, competed for space below as they did above, in a minuet of ruin and triumph. In the subway, down in the dark, no citizen was more significant or more decrepit than another. All were smeared into a common average of existence, the A's and the C's tumbling or rising to settle into a ruthless mediocrity. No escape.
3611 Two people, two hands, and two songs, in this case "Big Shot" and "Bette Davis Eyes." The lyrics of the two songs provided no commentary, honest or ironic, on the proceedings. They were merely there and always underfoot, the insistent gray muck that was pop culture. It stuck to our shoes and we tracked it through our lives.
1641 We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.
2878 A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.
1495 Here's a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it's going to pay off later.
3727 Google “brooklyn writer” and you’ll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?
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