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  1. Roger Zelazny _ Nine Princes in Amber

    In the State of Denmark there was the odor of decay...
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  2. Roger Zelazny _ Sign of the Unicorn

    To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.
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  3. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Lathe of Heaven

    Orr slept. He dreamed. There was no rub.
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  4. Bill Bryson _ Shakespeare: The World as

    It is often said that what sets Shakespeare apart is his ability to illuminate the workings of the soul and so on, and he does that superbly, goodness knows, but what really characterizes his work - every bit of it, in poems and plays and even dedications, throughout every portion of his career - is a positive and palpable appreciation of the transfixing power of language. remains an enchanting work after four hundred years, but few could argue that it cuts to the very heart of human behaviour. What it does is take, and give, a positive satisfaction in the joyous possibilities of verbal expression.
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  5. Ray Bradbury _ Zen in the Art of Writing

    Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods.
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  6. Raymond Chandler _ Raymond Chandler Speaking

    I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would have done well in any generation because he would have refused to die in a corner; he would have taken the false gods and made them over; he would have taken the current formulae and forced them into something lesser men thought them incapable of. Alive today he would undoubtedly have written and directed motion pictures, plays, and God knows what. Instead of saying, "This medium is not good," he would have used it and made it good. If some people called some his work cheap {which some of it was}, he wouldn't have cared a rap, because he would know that without some vulgarity there is no complete man. He would have hated refinement, as such, because it is always a withdrawal, and he was too tough to shrink from anything.
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  7. William Shakespeare _ Romeo and Juliet

    These violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triump die, like fire and powderWhich, as they kiss, consume
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  8. William Shakespeare _ The Merchant of Venice

    You speak an infinite deal of nothing.
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  9. Ellen Raskin _ The Westing Game

    I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible.""Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.
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  10. Robert Louis Stevenson _ Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes

    There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at; and a class of men who cannot edit one author without disparaging all others.
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  11. Bob Harris _ Prisoner of Trebekistan: A

    In high school, we barely brushed against Ogden Nash, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, or any of the other so-unserious writers who delight everyone they touch. This was, after all, a very expensive and important school. Instead, I was force-fed a few of Shakespeare's Greatest Hits, although the English needed translation, the broad comedy and wrenching drama were lost, and none of the magnificently dirty jokes were ever explained. {Incidentally, Romeo and Juliet, fully appreciated, might be banned in some U.S. states.} This was the Concordance again, and little more. So we'd read all the lines aloud, resign ourselves to a ponderous struggle, and soon give up the plot completely.
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  12. Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, writes it, builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it
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