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Bret Easton Ellis
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Lunar Park
I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.
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Tom Standage
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A History of the World in 6
When coffee became popular in Oxford and the coffee houses selling it began to multiply, the university authorities tried to clamp down, worrying that coffee houses promoted idleness and distracted members of the university from their studies
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studying
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Doris Kearns Goodwin
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and
She feared that she would become a slave to superficial, symbolic duties.
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materialism
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ritual
Frank Herbert
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Dune
Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.
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leadership
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Steven Pressfield
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The War of Art: Break Through
Its {Resistance} aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.
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resistance
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Pearl S. Buck
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The Good Earth
The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them.
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materialism
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idolatry
Geraldine Brooks
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The Secret Chord
Even those who know better, such as the King, nurse strange ideas about me as a prophet. They do not understand that I am given to see only those matters that roil the heavens. They expect me to know everything.
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Lewis Carroll
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Alice's Adventures in
Oh, don't go on like that!" cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. "Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you've come today. Consider what o'clock it is. Consider anything, only don't cry!"Alice could not help laughing at this, even in the midst of her tears. "Can you keep from crying by considering things?" she asked."That's that way it's done," the Queen said with great decision: "nobody can do two things at once, you know.
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Victor Hugo
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Les Misérables
The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things."
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worry
worship
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Kelley Armstrong
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The Reckoning
he drawled. His grin turned a little less friendly, more bared teeth than smile. He stepped closer. I stepped back. he said. His look sent a shiver through me. He moved toward me, I sidestepped, leading him away.
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Orhan Pamuk
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Snow
Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.
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love
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snow
George Eliot
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Adam Bede
You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.
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