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Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large (A Vintage Short) QUOTES

Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large (A Vintage Short) QUOTES

1 " Why did you need to see my ID?” “This is an exclusive service, Mr. Orlean,” she said with no chink of humanity in her face. “And we like to know exactly who it is we’re dealing with.” “Oh,” I said. “So it wasn’t because of my clothes or my race?” “The lower races come in all colors, Mr. Orlean. And none of them get back here. "

― Walter Mosley , Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large (A Vintage Short)

2 " The landlord and I have a little dispute going.” “What kind of dispute?” “I haven’t paid rent in seven years and he thinks that it’s about time that I did.” “And you don’t?” “The only truth in the bible is where it says that stuff about money and evil,” he said and then he hurried out. "

― Walter Mosley , Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large (A Vintage Short)

3 " Is that your real name?” I asked. “Lawless?” The nihilist smiled at me and patted my knee. “You would even question a man’s name?” he asked, amazed. “I mean what are the odds?” I said. “An anarchist named Lawless? That’s just too perfect.” “What if my parents were revolutionists? What if I looked up my name and decided that that’s what I’d become?” “Your parents were revolutionaries that changed their names?” I asked. “I am Archibald Lawless,” he said. “I’m sitting here before you. You are looking into my eyes and questioning what you see and what you hear. On the streets you meet Asian men named Brian, Africans named Joe Cramm. But you don’t question their obviously being named for foreign devils. You accept their humiliation. You accept their loss of history. You accept them being severed from long lines of heritage by their names. Why wouldn’t you accept just as simply my liberating appellation? "

― Walter Mosley , Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large (A Vintage Short)

4 " Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large,” my host said formally. He sat in the swivel chair and leaned back. “What does that mean exactly?” “What do you think it means?” “That you plan to overthrow the government in hopes of causing a perpetual state of chaos throughout the world?” “They aren’t much on reality at Xavier or Columbia, are they? "

― Walter Mosley , Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large (A Vintage Short)