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  1. bell hooks _ Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and

    ..think about the contradictions and complexities that beset people.
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  2. Barry Lopez _ Of Wolves and Men

    The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
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  3. Hermann Hesse _ Knulp

    He tried to think of death as he had done now and then, but that tired him and he dozed off. When he awoke an hour later, he felt fresh and calm as though he had slept for days.
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  4. Chuck Palahniuk _ Choke

    I fought against everything, but more and more I worry that I was never for anything... I can criticize and complain and judge everything, but what does that get me?... Griping isn't the same as creating something... Rebelling isn't rebuilding. Ridiculing isn't replacing... We've taken the world apart, but we have no idea what to do with the pieces... My generation, all of our making fun of things isn't making the world any better. We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own... I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as fake participation. It only looks as if we've accomplished something.
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  5. John Banville _ The Sea

    There was a time when I quite liked what I saw in the looking-glass, but not anymore. Now I'm startled, and more than startled, by the visage that so abruptly appears there, never at all the one that I expect. I have been elbowed aside by a parody of myself, a sadly dishevelled figure in a Halloween mask made of sagging, pinkish- grey rubber that bears no more than a passing resemblance to the image of what I look like that I stubbornly retain in my head.
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  6. John Banville _ Birchwood

    We imagine that we remember things as they were, while in fact all we carry into the future are fragments which reconstruct a wholly illusory past. That first death we witness will always be a murmur of voices down a corridor and a clock falling silent in the darkened room, the end of love is forever two spent cigarettes in a saucer and a white door closing.
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  7. Kim Stanley Robinson _ The Years of Rice and Salt

    So you see systems of thought and religion coming out of the kinds of societies that invented them. The means by which people feed themselves determine how they think and what they believe. Agricultural societies believe in rain gods and seed gods and gods for every manner of thing that might affect the harvest {China}. People who herd animals believe in a single shepherd god {Islam}. In both these kinds of cultures you see a primitive notion of gods as helpers, as big people watching from above, like parents who nevertheless act like bad children, deciding capriciously whom to reward and whom not to, on the basis of craven sacrifices made to them by the humans dependent on their whim. The religions that say you should sacrifice or even pray to a god like that, to ask them to do something material for you, are the religions of desperate and ignorant people.It is only when you get to the more advanced and secure societies that you get a religion ready to face the universe honestly, to announce there is no clear sign of divinity, except for the existence of the cosmos in and of itself, which means that everything is holy, whether or not there be a god looking down on it.
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  8. Nathan Reese Maher

    That's a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their rightmind would point at this thing and say, 'I'm going to fly in my Model-A1'
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  9. Nathan Reese Maher

    She leaves my side and heads deeper int
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  10. Nathan Reese Maher

    History doesn't start with a tall buildin
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  11. Nathan Reese Maher

    There is a stillness between us, a period of restlessness that ties my stomac
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  12. Nathan Reese Maher

    Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of los
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