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  1. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.
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  2. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Big Magic: Creative Living

    Passion can seem intimidatingly out of reach at times - a distant tower of flame, accessible only to geniuses and to those who are specially touched by God. But curiosity is a milder, quieter, more welcoming, and more democratic entity. The stakes of curiosity are also far lower than the stakes of passion. {...} Curiosity only ever asks one simple question: "Is there anything you're interested in?" Anything? Even a tiny bit? No matter how mundane or small? The answer need not set your life on fire, or make you quit your job {...}; it just has to capture your attention for a moment. But in that moment, if you can pause and identify even one tiny speck of interest in something, then curiosity will ask you to turn your head a quarter of an inch and look at the thing a wee bit closer. Do it. It's a clue. It might seem like nothing, but it's a clue. Follow that clue. Trust it. See where curiosity will lead you next.
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  3. Pat Conroy _ The Prince of Tides

    I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals of the middle class"
    book-quoteconsumerismcuriosity

  4. Oliver Sacks _ Uncle Tungsten

    I was on the shy side at school {one school report called me 'diffident'} and Braefield had added a special timidity, but when I had a natural wonder... I lost all my diffidence, and freely approached others, all my fear forgotten.
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  5. Marilyn Chandler McEntyre _ Caring for Words in a Culture

    Curiosity. It was Oliver Sacks who first made me reflect on curiosity as a form of compassion. An ingenious and creative neurologist now well-known for his "clinical tales," he begins his work as diagnostician and healer with the implicit question 'What is it like to be you?
    book-quotehealingempathycuriosity

  6. R.A. Salvatore _ Passage to Dawn

    Who knows what adventure we might find here?" Drizzt said excitedly. "Who knows what secrets might be unveiled to us?""Adventure?" Dunkin asked incredulously, looking to the carnage along the beach, and to the zombies still frozen in the water. "Reward?" he added with a chuckle. "Punishment, more likely, though I have done nothing to harm you, any of you!""We are here to unveil a mystery," Drizzt said, as though that fact should have piqued the man's curiosity, "To learn and to grow. To live as we discover the secrets of the world about us."
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  7. Phillip Athans _ R.A. Salvatore's War of the

    Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.
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  8. Tamora Pierce _ Trickster's Choice

    Curiosity killed the cat," Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable.Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? "People always forget the rest of the saying," she complained. "'And satisfaction brought it back.
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  9. Yann Martel _ Beatrice and Virgil

    Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch of canvas that needed painting-that blend of anxiety, curiosity and joy that is at the origin of art-and he had filled the hole, answered the question, splashed colour on the canvas, all done for himself, because he had to. Then complete strangers told him that his book had filled a hole in them, had answered a question, had brought colour to their lives. The comfort of strangers, be it a smile, a pat on the shoulder or a word of praise, is truly a comfort.
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  10. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Fellowship of the Ring

    As the story grew, it put down roots into the past and threw out unexpected branches .
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  11. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ The Bully Pulpit: Theodore

    {Theodore} Roosevelt confessed early fascination with "girls'stories" such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl."
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  12. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ The Bully Pulpit: Theodore

    Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.
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