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« The American president remains open mouth, bears a strong resemblance to a large grouper with a blonde wig. Page 135. »
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« An Indian proverb says that those who beg in silence starve in silence. »
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« In their exchanges, despite what separates them - thirty-three years, two billion dollars in stock options and a sparkling denture - both abuse first names, and this colors their conversation with a refined touch of poisonous hypocrisy. Would they be Latin that they would be silent. As a bourgeois who declares himself a friend of his gardener, Prior has convinced himself of this fiction of friendship, but Joanna is not fooled by anything. She discerns in prior's rictus the unspeakable south he carries on him, these signs and symbolic nuances that permeate all race relations, she recognizes this spontaneous posture that allows a rich white lady with well-placed hair to offer her black driver the most radiant of smiles, a smile of overwhelming affection where her imperious certainty of the natural inferiority of this grandson , that poisonous smile that hasn't moved an inch since Gone with the Wind and that her whole childhood Joanna saw on the powdered faces of her seamstress mother's white clients. »
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