Richard Whittington/dick Whittington%e2%80%94stage Character

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    “I’m beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of death among Americans. What you don’t know can indeed hurt you, and so those who can neither read nor write lead miserable lives, like Richard Wright’s character, Bigger Thomas, born dead with no past or future.”
    —Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)

    “Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.”
    —Philip K. Dick (1928–1982)

    “[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.”
    —James Boswell (1740–1795)