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books read in 2016 - 2017: the old man and the sea by ernest hemingway
Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.
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books read in 2016 - 2017: miguel street by v. s. naipaul
A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say “Slum!” because he could see no more. But we who lived there saw our street as a world, where everybody was quite different from everybody else. Mam-man was mad; George was stupid; Big Foot was a bully; hat was an adventurer; Popo was a philosopher; and Morgan was our comedian.
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books i read in 2016 - 2017 : the selected poems of frank o’hara
oh god it’s wonderful
to get out of bed
and drink too much coffee
and smoke too many cigarettes
and love you so much
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books read in 2016 - 2017 : the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald
They’re a rotten crowd. You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.
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books read in 2016 - 2017: native son by richard wright
Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed…It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.
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books read in 2016 - 2017: chicago: city on the make by nelson algren
Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.
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books read in 2016 - 2017: burning patience by antonio skarmeta
“To conclude, I want to say to all men of good faith, to the workers, and to the poets, that the entire future was expressed by Rimbaud in that one sentence: only with burning patience shall we conquer the splendid city that will give light, justice, and dignity to all men.
Thus poetry will not have sung in vain.”
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