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Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

big, bountiful and necessary failure,

Martin Amis • The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (Vintage International)

“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says ‘Morning, boys. How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes ‘What the hell is water?’”15

James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit

“What views do you hold almost irrationally?”

Daniel Gross • Talent

He warned the students against any effort by an editor to inject his own point of view into a writer’s work or to try to make him something other than what he is.

A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius

fallacy

Tyler Cowen • The fallacy of mood affiliation

in a wholly racialized society, there is no escape from racially inflected language,

Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark

On further reflection, however, it seemed to me that it was perhaps a conceit to think that modern societies had progressed so far beyond Melanesia, since Big Men—that is, politicians who distribute resources to their relatives and supporters—are ubiquitous in the contemporary world, including the U.S. Congress.

Francis Fukuyama • The Origins of Political Order

But the answer “black” immediately carries a heavy load, and a number of potentially violent actions—that would have been unlikely otherwise—suddenly become psychologically possible. You don’t just lecture or book this type of body or take it down to the station. It would have no respect for you if you did that—after all, it is more than used to ro