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  1. Bill Bryson _ Neither Here nor There:

    Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn't a country; it's a near-death experience.
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  2. Zadie Smith _ White Teeth

    It's like that quote: 'If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.' The choice between a duty or a principle, you know?
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  3. Khaled Hosseini _ A Thousand Splendid Suns

    ‎I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very very bright girl. Truly you are. You can be anything you want Laila. I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated Laila. No chance.
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  4. Robert M. Pirsig _ Zen and the Art of Motorcycle

    People spend their entire lives at those lower altitudes without any awareness that this high country exists.
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  5. Rebecca McNutt _ Bittersweet Symphony

    There are so many shady things happening in this country, they're happening all around us all the time, and we just accept them.
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  6. Rebecca McNutt _ Mandy and Alecto: The

    Canada is a free country, after all.
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  7. Rebecca McNutt _ Smog City

    I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home.
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  8. Rebecca McNutt _ Husks: A Short Story

    They were relentless, brilliant scavengers with a keen sense of craftiness, and no human being could outwit them. The kind of cunning mischief and competition that a murder of crows possessed was unbeatable, and the war between farmer and fowl was a never-ending tale of woe which often led purely to bankruptcy.
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  9. Rebecca McNutt _ Smog City

    Alford, Massachusetts: Mandy stood there with her old Nikon film camera, snapping photo after photo of the rural landscape. It was difficult to describe the wonderful feeling of there not being a single cell phone in sight; the only modern technology around was the faint blue glow of a cathode ray tube television in the window of a nearby house, and a few cars and trucks parked in crumbling gravel driveways. She was allowed to see this place, one that would likely be ruined by the 21st century as time went on… places like these were extremely hard to find these days. A world of wood-burning cookstoves and the waxy smell of Paraffin, laundry hung out to dry, rusty steel bridges over streams that reflected the bright blue skies, apple pies left out on windowsills… a world of hard work with very little to show for it aside from the sunlight beaming down on a proud community. And Mandy wanted to trap it all in her Kodak film rolls and rescue it from the future.
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  10. Alan Paton _ Cry, the Beloved Country

    - This world is full of trouble, umfundisi. - Who knows it better? - Yet you believe? Kumalo looked at him under the light of the lamp. I believe, he said, but I have learned that it is a secret. Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering. There is my wife, and you, my friend, and these people who welcomed me, and the child who is so eager to be with us here in Ndotsheni – so in my suffering I can believe. - I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi. For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering. Kumalo looked at his friend with joy. You are a preacher, he said.
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  11. Jeffrey Eugenides _ Fresh Complaint

    One's country is like oneself. The more you learned about it, the more there was to be ashamed of.
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