

“How easy it was to disappear: A thousand trains a day entered or left Chicago.”
― The Devil in the White City
― The Devil in the White City

“Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
― Get Rich or Get Lucky
― Get Rich or Get Lucky

“It soon became evident that there was no single animal—bird, fish, mammal, or any of the sea's lesser creatures—that could live in all the various parts of the sea I proposed to describe. That problem was instantly solved, however, when I realised that the sea itself must be the central character whether I wished it or not; for the sense of the sea, holding the power of life and death over every one of its creatures from the smallest to the largest, would inevitably pervade every page.”
― Under the Sea-Wind
― Under the Sea-Wind

“Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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