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White Teeth (2000)
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13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands.
13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.
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Don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate the pleasure they receive from viewing pain that is not their own... Pain by itself is just Pain. But Pain + Distance can = entertainment, voyeurism, human interest, cinéma vérité, a good belly chuckle, a sympathetic smile, a raised eyebrow, disguised contempt.
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The thinnest covering of luck was on him like fresh dew. While he slipped in and out of consciousness, the position of the planets, the music of the spheres, the flap of a tiger moth's diaphanous wings in Central Africa, and a whole bunch of other stuff that makes shit happen had decided it was second-chance time for Archie.
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Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It's the last stop on the nutso express.
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Ryan's freckles were a join-the-dot's enthusiast's wet dream.
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Pulchritude—beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.
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In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.
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No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios: Pebble : Beach Raindrop : Ocean Needle : Haystack
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But why do they always have to be laughing and making a song-and-dance about everything? I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.
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.. and the devil won another easy hand in God's poker game.
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(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)
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You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.
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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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October 25, 1975
(age 48)
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