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  1. Marshall McLuhan _ Forward Through The Rearview

    I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what's happening. Because I don't choose just to sit and let the juggernaut roll over me. Many people seem to think that if you talk about something recent, you're in favor of it. The exact opposite is true in my case. Anything I talk about is almost certainly something I'm resolutely against. And it seems to me the best way to oppose it is to understand it. And then you know where to turn off the buttons.
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  2. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. – From the book jacket
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  3. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration in which the price is literary survival or canonical inclusion."
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  4. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home.
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  5. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks.
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  6. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Originality must compound with inheritance.
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  7. Voltaire _ Philosophical Dictionary

    Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
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  8. Peter Watson _ A Terrible Beauty: The People

    One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again be quite so 'easy' as they had been.
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  9. Bill Bryson _ At Home: A Short History of

    Widespread commercial distribution of ice was so new that 300 tons of the precious commodity melted at one port while customs officials tried to figure out how to classify it.
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  10. Chuck Palahniuk _ Lullaby

    History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.
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  11. Lois Lowry _ A Summer to Die

    I'm trying to ruin it!" Will had bellowed back. "So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can you learn anything if you won't take risks?
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  12. Francis Fukuyama _ Political Order and Political

    A high degree of autonomy is what permits innovation, experimentation and risk taking in a bureaucracy. If the slightest mistake can end a career, then no one will ever take risks.
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