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  1. Chinua Achebe _ Things Fall Apart

    Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten."
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  2. Donna Tartt _ The Secret History

    Occasionally a car swooshed by in the rain and its headlights would swing round momentarily and illuminate the room-the pool table, snowshoes on the wall and the rowing machine, the armchair in which Henry sat, motionless, a glass in his hand and the cigarette burning low between his fingers. For a moment his face, pale and watchful as a ghost's, would be caught in the headlights and then, very gradually, it would slide back into the dark.
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  3. Andrew Barger _ Coffee With Poe

    Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path. I shall be a litterateur, at least, all my life; nor would I abandon the hopes which still lead me on for all the gold in California."EDGAR ALLAN POE TO FREDERICK WILLIAM THOMASFEBRUARY 14, 1849"
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  4. Nick Hornby _ Juliet, Naked

    Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality.
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