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Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail.
Colson Whitehead
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Colson Whitehead
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead
Across
Preserving
Memories
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Every
Motion
Slow
Recasting
Awful
Cutter
Details
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Memory
Malicious
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