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  1. Michael Finkel _ The Stranger in the Woods: The

    Language and hearing are seated in the cerebral cortex, the folded gray matter that covers the first couple of millimeters of the outer brain like wrapping paper. When one experiences silence, absent even reading, the cerebral cortex typically rests. Meanwhile, deeper and more ancient brain structures seem to be activated--the subcortical zones. People who live busy, noisy lives are rarely granted access to these areas. Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altogether, literally offering a deeper level of thought, a journey to the bedrock of the self.
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  2. E.L. Konigsburg _ Talk, Talk : A Children's Book

    Because we are human we have a long childhood, and one of the jobs of that childhood is to sculpt our brains. We have years--about twelve of them--to draw outlines of the shape we want our sculpted brain to take. Some of the parts must be sculpted at critical times. One cannot, after all, carve out toes unless he knows where the foot will go. We need tools to do some of the fine work. The tools are our childhood experiences. And I'm convinced that one of those experiences must be children's books. And they must be experienced within the early years of our long childhood.
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  3. Nicole Krauss _ Man Walks Into a Room

    The misery of other people is only an abstraction {...} something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's own experiences. But as it stands, true empathy remains impossible. And so long as it is, people will continue to suffer the pressure of their seemingly singular existence.
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  4. Lois Lowry _ A Summer to Die

    We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh."
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  5. Lois Lowry _ A Summer to Die

    It was the helplessness that scared the both of us."
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  6. Lois Lowry _ A Summer to Die

    ...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.
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  7. Lois Lowry _ A Summer to Die

    You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense.
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  8. Neil Strauss

    STRAUSS:Have you ever thought about putting those experiences into a book?RICHIE:I did decide to write about what i experienced in climbing to the top. And finally when I got there, I discovered what was at the top.You know what was there
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