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  1. Jess Walter _ Beautiful Ruins

    He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.
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  2. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.
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  3. Neil Gaiman _ American Gods

    Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you give up your mortal existence to become a meme: something that lives forever in people's minds, like the tune of a nursery rhyme. It means that everyone gets to re-create you in their own minds. You barely have your own identity any more. Instead, you're a thousand aspects of what people need you to be. And everyone wants something different from you. Nothing is fixed, nothing is stable.
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  4. Simone de Beauvoir _ The Woman Destroyed

    Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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  5. Irvin D. Yalom _ Love's Executioner and Other

    How disquieting to realise that reality is an illusion, at best a democratisation of perception based on participant consensus.
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  6. Markus Zusak _ Underdog

    I walked home, seeing all my doubt from the other side. Have you ever seen that? Like when you go on holiday. On the way back, everything is the same but it looks a little different than it did on the way. It's because you're seeing it backwards.
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  7. Markus Zusak _ The Book Thief

    Personally, I like a chocolate-covered sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, however, try to enjoy every color I see - the whole spectrum. A billion or so flavors, none of them quite the same, and a sky to slowly suck on. It takes the edge off the stress. It helps me relax.
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  8. Edmund Spenser _ The Faerie Queene

    Why then should witless man so much misweeneThat nothing is but that which he hath seene?
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  9. Leo Tolstoy _ Anna Karenina

    But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then-all the combinations made-they are tired of the fictitious figures and begin to invent more natural, true figures.
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  10. Eoin Colfer _ Airman

    A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.
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  11. James Baldwin _ Nobody Knows My Name

    The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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  12. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden

    It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.
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