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  1. Charles Murray _ Coming Apart: The State of

    The main vehicle for nineteenth-century socialization was the leading textbook used in elementary school. They were so widely used that sections in them became part of the national language. Theodore Roosevelt, scion of an elite New York family, schooled by private tutors, had been raised on the same textbooks as the children of Ohio farmers, Chicago tradesman, and New England fishermen. If you want to know what constituted being a good American from the mid-nineteenth century to World War I, spend a few hours browsing through the sections in the McGuffey Readers."
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  2. Irvine Welsh _ Skagboys

    Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zenith.
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  3. Alain de Botton _ How Proust Can Change Your

    It is difficult when reading the description of certain fictional characters not at the same time to imagine the real-life acquaintances who they most closely, if often unexpectedly, resemble.
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  4. Alain de Botton _ The Architecture of Happiness

    In literature, too, we admire prose in which a small and astutely arranged set of words has been constructed to carry a large consignment of ideas. 'We all have strength enough to bear the misfortunes of others,' writes La Rochefoucauld in an aphorism which transports us with an energy and exactitude comparable to that of Maillard bridge. The Swiss engineer reduces the number of supports just as the French writer compacts into a single line what lesser minds might have taken pages to express. We delight in complexity to which genius has lent an appearance of simplicity. {p 207}
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  5. Alain de Botton _ How Proust Can Change Your

    One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love.
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  6. Heather O'Neill _ The Girl Who Was Saturday

    On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined. Every writer has to invent their own magical language, in order to describe the indescribable. They might seem to be writing in French, English, or Spanish, but really they were writing in the language of butterflies, crows, and hanged men.
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  7. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    We are destroying all esthetic standards in the name of social justice.
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  8. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

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

    Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.
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  10. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out of memory, and so {as Nietzsche saw} out of pain, the pain of surrendering easier pleasures in favour of much more difficult ones ... successful literary works are achieved anxieties, not releases from anxieties.
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  11. J.D. Salinger _ The Catcher in the Rye

    What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
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  12. Lorrie Moore _ Anagrams

    In the Dictionary 'lumpy jaw' comes just before 'lunacy,' but in life there are no such clues. Suddenly, for no reason, you might start to dribble from the mouth, to howl peevishly at the moon. You might start quoting your mother, out loud and with conviction. You might lose your friends to the most uninspired of deaths. You might one day wake up and find yourself teaching at a community college; there will have been nothing to warn you. You might say things to your students like, There is only one valid theme in literature: Life will disappoint you.
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