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  1. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.
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  2. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Originality must compound with inheritance.
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  3. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    This light of history is pitiless; it has a strange and divine quality that, luminous as it is, and precisely because it is luminous, often casts a shadow just where we saw a radiance; out of the same man it makes two different phantoms, and the one attacks and punishes the other, the darkness of the despot struggles with the splendor of the captain. Hence a truer measure in the final judgment of the nations. Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.
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  4. W.E.B. Du Bois _ The Souls of Black Folk

    When now we turn and look five miles above, there on the edge of town are five houses of prostitutes,-two of blacks and three of whites; and in one of the houses of the whites a worthless black boy was harbored too openly two years ago; so he was hanged for rape. And here, too, is the high whitewashed fence of the "stockade," as the county prison is called; the white folks say it is ever full of black criminals,-the black folks say that only colored boys are sent to jail, and they not because they are guilty, but because the State needs criminals to eke out its income by their forced labor.
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  5. W.E.B. Du Bois _ The Souls of Black Folk

    Not even ten additional years of slavery could have done so much to throttle the thrift of the freedmen as the mismanagement and bankruptcy of the series of savings banks chartered by the Nation for their especial aid.
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  6. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Farthest Shore

    If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown.
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  7. E.L. Konigsburg _ Talk, Talk : A Children's Book

    Since language is the only tool with which writers can reflect and shape a culture, it must be transformed into art. Language is not a limitation on the art of literature; it is a glorification. It has been the scaffolding inside which nations and philosophies have been built, and the language of literature has added the ornamental pediment by which the culture is remembered.
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  8. Mark Kurlansky _ 1968: The Year That Rocked the

    Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history." Georges Pompidou
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  9. Mark Kurlansky _ 1968: The Year That Rocked the

    Children need fairy tales, but it is just as essential that they have parents who tell them about their own lives, so that they can establish a relationship to the past.
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  10. Steven Johnson _ How We Got to Now: Six

    The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, "Are we being good ancestors?
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  11. Frank Herbert _ Dune

    My son will wear the title well, the Duke thought, and realized with a sudden chill that this was another death thought."
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  12. Frank Herbert _ Dune

    Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing.
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