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  1. Marshall McLuhan _ The Medium is the Massage

    The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial; rarely "well-adjusted", he cannot go along with currents and trends. A strange bond often exists between antisocial types in their power to see environments as they really are. This need to interface, to confront environments with a certain antisocial power is manifest in the famous story "The Emperor's New Clothes".
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  2. Anonymous _ Qurʾan / القرآن الكريم

    Allah causes the night and the day to succeed each other. Truly, in these things is indeed a lesson for those who have insight.
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  3. Markus Zusak _ The Book Thief

    It's much easier . . . to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.
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  4. David Simon

    If the case isn't plea bargained, dismissed or placed on the inactive docket for an indefinite period of time, if by some perverse twist of fate it becomes a trial by jury, you will then have the opportunity of sitting on the witness stand and reciting under oath the facts of the case-a brief moment in the sun that clouds over with the appearance of the aforementioned defense attorney who, at worst, will accuse you of perjuring yourself in a gross injustice or, at best, accuse you of conducting an investigation so incredibly slipshod that the real killer has been allowed to roam free
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  5. L.M. Montgomery _ Anne of Green Gables

    There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation--was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement. Where was the wholesome punishment upon which she, Marilla, had plumed herself? Anne had turned it into a species of positive pleasure.
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  6. Andrew Wilson _ Patricia Highsmith, Ζωή στο

    {Patricia Highsmith} was a figure of contradictions: a lesbian who didn't particularly like women; a writer of the most insightful psychological novels who, at times, appeared bored by people; a misanthrope with a gentle, sweet nature.
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  7. Jon Ronson _ The Psychopath Test: A Journey

    We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.
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  8. R. Scott Bakker _ The Darkness That Comes Before

    Hoga Gothyelk no longer felt anger, not truly -- only varieties of sorrow.
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  9. R. Scott Bakker _ The Thousandfold Thought

    Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.
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  10. R. Scott Bakker _ The Warrior Prophet

    Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.
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  11. R. Scott Bakker _ The Warrior Prophet

    There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.
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  12. Chuck Palahniuk _ Lullaby

    The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.
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