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  1. Edith Hamilton _ The Greek Way

    An ancient writer says of Homer that he touched nothing without somehow honoring and glorifying it.
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  2. Anna Deavere Smith _ Letters to a Young Artist

    Rhetoric is what shapes history, if not truth.
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  3. Hannah Arendt _ The Origins of Totalitarianism

    There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.
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  4. Mark Haddon (Author) _ The Curious Incident of the

    .. a simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile.
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  5. Kim Stanley Robinson _ Red Mars

    It's amazing how little you need to keep starving people strung along."
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  6. Philip Zaleski _ The Fellowship: The Literary

    Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.
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  7. Frank Herbert _ Dune

    A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.
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  8. Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate

    He could be as memorable an orator as his father, particularly when he was speaking on that topic that had captured his imagination;
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  9. Robert A. Caro _ Master of the Senate

    Lyndon Johnson's sentences were the sentences of a man with a remarkable gift for words, not long words but evocative, of a man with a remarkable gift for images, homey images of a vividness that infused the sentences with drama.
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  10. Robert A. Caro _ Means of Ascent

    Lyndon Johnson knew how to make the most of such enthusiasm and how to play on it and intensify it. He wanted his audience to become involved. He wanted their hands up in the air. And having been a schoolteacher he knew how to get their hands up. He began, in his speeches, to ask questions.
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  11. Robert M. Pirsig _ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle

    He singled out aspects of Quality such as unity, vividness, authority, economy, sensitivity, clarity, emphasis, flow, suspense, brilliance, precision, proportion, depth and so on; kept each of these as poorly defined as Quality itself, but demonstrated them by the same class reading techniques. He showed how the aspect of Quality called unity, the hanging-togetherness of a story, could be improved with a technique called an outline. The authority of an argument could be jacked up with a technique called footnotes, which gives authoritative reference. Outlines and footnotes are standard things taught in all freshman composition classes, but now as devices for improving Quality they had a purpose. And if a student turned in a bunch of dumb references or a sloppy outline that showed he was just fulfilling an assignment by rote, he could be told that while his paper may have fulfilled the letter of the assignment it obviously didn't fulfill the goal of Quality, and was therefore worthless.
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  12. Robert M. Pirsig _ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle

    As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken before real rhetoric teaching could begin. This imitation seemed to be an external compulsion. Little children didn't have it. It seemed to come later on, possibly as a result of school itself. That sounded right, and the more he thought about it the more right it sounded. Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A's. Originality on the other hand could get you anything – from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it.
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