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1 " There was another silence. I felt, above all, tired. Tiredness: if there was a constant symptom of the disease in our lives at this time, it was tiredness. At work we were unflagging; at home the smallest gesture of liveliness was beyond us. Mornings we awoke into a malign weariness that seemed only to have refreshed itself overnight. "
― Joseph O'Neill , Netherland
2 " A fog of despair so pervaded the ghetto that the smallest gesture of rebellion could seem like a bold, piercing light. Bad, said with a fond expression, was almost always a compliment. "
― Adrian Nicole LeBlanc , Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
