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I am fearing because I am seeing that the only way not to be fighting is to die. I am not wanting to die.

— Uzodinma Iweala Beasts of No Nation (2005)

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And now the woman is praying to God... I am laughing laughing because God is forgetting everybody in this country.

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I'm walking walking walking to where the sun is setting. I'm looking at it and wanting to catch it in my hand and to be squeezing until color are dripping out from it forever. That way everywhere it is always dark and nobody is ever having to see any of the terrible thing that is happening in this world.

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