Zadie Smith - White Teeth (2000)

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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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