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  1. George Eliot _ Adam Bede

    Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation."
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  2. John Fowles _ The Collector

    People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness.The black and the black and the black.
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  3. Bret Easton Ellis _ Lunar Park

    I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.
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  4. Tom Standage _ A History of the World in 6

    When coffee became popular in Oxford and the coffee houses selling it began to multiply, the university authorities tried to clamp down, worrying that coffee houses promoted idleness and distracted members of the university from their studies
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  5. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ No Ordinary Time: Franklin and

    She feared that she would become a slave to superficial, symbolic duties.
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  6. Frank Herbert _ Dune

    Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.
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  7. Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through

    Its {Resistance} aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.
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  8. Pearl S. Buck _ The Good Earth

    The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them.
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  9. Geraldine Brooks _ The Secret Chord

    Even those who know better, such as the King, nurse strange ideas about me as a prophet. They do not understand that I am given to see only those matters that roil the heavens. They expect me to know everything.
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  10. Lewis Carroll _ Alice's Adventures in

    Oh, don't go on like that!" cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. "Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you've come today. Consider what o'clock it is. Consider anything, only don't cry!"Alice could not help laughing at this, even in the midst of her tears. "Can you keep from crying by considering things?" she asked."That's that way it's done," the Queen said with great decision: "nobody can do two things at once, you know.
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  11. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things."
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  12. Kelley Armstrong _ The Reckoning

    he drawled. His grin turned a little less friendly, more bared teeth than smile. He stepped closer. I stepped back. he said. His look sent a shiver through me. He moved toward me, I sidestepped, leading him away.
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