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Teju Cole  Quotes
As he drank more and more, he became inebriated, and began to fashion damaged human beings.

—Teju Cole

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Religion
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There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first and foremost, could drink a Coke at whim.

—Teju Cole

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AdulthoodCoca-ColaCoke
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Money, dished out in quantities fitting the context, is a social lubricant here. It eases passage even as it maintains hierarchies. Fifty naira for the man who helps you back out from the parking spot,...

—Teju Cole

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CorruptionHierarchyMoney
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It wasn’t a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.

—Teju Cole

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DeceptionKnowledgeLovers
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We owe ourselves our lives.

—Teju Cole

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IdentityLives
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I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having come in from the rain, the smell of food and wine, interesting conversation,...

—Teju Cole

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EmotionsHappiness
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Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and...

—Teju Cole

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CityNew-York-CityUrban
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I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.

—Teju Cole

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LifeMonsters
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There was some kind of scuffle two hundred yards down the street, again strangely noiseless, and a huddled knot of men opened up to reveal two brawlers being separated and pulled away from their fight....

—Teju Cole

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HallucinationHistoryLynching
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To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection...

—Teju Cole

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AnswerDeathLife
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He, too, was in the grip of rage and rhetoric. I saw that, attractive though his side of the political spectrum was. A cancerous violence had eaten into every political idea, had taken over the...

—Teju Cole

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MoralityPhilosphyPolitics
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