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  1. Gregory Maguire _ Wicked: The Life and Times of

    When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.
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  2. Bill Bryson _ Neither Here nor There:

    Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn't a country; it's a near-death experience.
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  3. Antonio Gramsci _ Prison Notebooks

    The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.
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  4. Douglas Coupland _ The Gum Thief

    ...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes.
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  5. Ayn Rand _ Atlas Shrugged

    Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...
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  6. Jodi Picoult _ Handle with Care

    I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.
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  7. Franz Kafka _ Blue Octavo Notebooks

    One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.
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  8. Marian Keyes _ The Break

    I should have learned mindfulness, and it's too late now because it's no good learning it when you're already in crisis: you have to start when things are good. But only the very, very oddest would think, Hey, my life is perfect. I know! I'll sit and waste twenty minutes Observing My Thoughts without Judgement.
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  9. J.D. Robb _ Glory in Death

    Business crises energize me. Personal crises devastate me. The doctors call it an avoidance tendency. {Mirena to Eve}"
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  10. Erik Larson _ Dead Wake: The Last Crossing

    I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the last five minutes.
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  11. Hunter S. Thompson _ Hell's Angels: A Strange and

    The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
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  12. Michael Crichton _ The Andromeda Strain

    A crisis is made by men, who enter into the crisis with their own prejudices, propensities, and predispositions. A crisis is the sum of intuition and blind spots, a blend of facts noted and facts ignored.
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