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  1. James Baldwin _ Giovanni's Room

    Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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  2. Jeanette Winterson _ Why Be Happy When You Could Be

    It takes much longer to leave the psychic place than the physical place." {p.120}
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  3. Howard Zinn _ Marx in Soho: A Play on

    But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth."
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  4. John Steinbeck _ East of Eden

    An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.
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  5. Paul Auster _ Invisible

    ...cannot possibly know who you are, you imagine that she is suspicious of all young people-as a matter of principle- and therefore what she sees when she looks at you is not you as yourself but you as yet one more querrilla fighter in the war against authority, an unruly insurrectionist who has no business barging into the sanctum of her library and asking for work. Such are the times you live in,the times you both live in. She instructs you to put the cards in order, and you can sense how deeply she wants you to fail, how happy it will make her to reject your application, and because you want the job just as much as she doesn't want you to have it, you make sure that you don't fail.
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  6. Anne Lamott _ Bird by Bird: Some

    You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.
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  7. Ken Kesey _ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's

    He had come to life for maybe a minute to try to tell us something, something none of us cared to listen to or tried to understand, and the effort had drained him dry.
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  8. William S. Burroughs _ Junky

    Hip - Someone who knows the score. Someone who understands "jive talk." Someone who is "with it." The expression is not subject to definition because, if you don't "dig" what it means, no one can ever tell you.
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