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“You see what I’m getting at: wherever there are facts, those facts are embellished, through both omission and exaggeration, beyond the factual.”
― Blackouts
― Blackouts

“Somewhere further along, she’d been given to understand, she would discover that all souls, human and otherwise, were different disguises of the same greater being—God at play”
― Vineland
― Vineland

“It’s a mistake to believe social media is all about hearts and thumbs, flames and eggplants. If everyone were only trying to be liked then it’d be kinder, and way more boring. But discourse is loneliness disguised as war. What people there really want is to be perceived on their own terms, which is so, so funny. Because if the grand promise of the internet was to be whoever you want, in reality it will make of you whatever it wants, and beneath every mask is another mask mistaken for a face.”
― Rejection
― Rejection

“I now saw the peril of forging a persona to escape all assignations, only to end up searing it into yourself. Not for nothing is it called a brand.”
― Rejection
― Rejection

“Jane's father once told her that white people believed, deep in their hearts, that Black people would all choose to become white if they could. But Black people didn't want to be white, he had told her. They only wanted to have what white people had. He had said race was always about money, and money was always about race. That's what white people didn't understand. Black people wanted only a big yellow Victorian on the hill, not to be the white people who lived there.”
― Colored Television
― Colored Television

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