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  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Farthest Shore

    If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown.
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  2. Mark Kurlansky _ 1968: The Year That Rocked the

    Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history." Georges Pompidou
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  3. Mark Kurlansky _ 1968: The Year That Rocked the

    Don't you sense the enormity of your mistake – you invade a country without understanding its music. – Norman Mailer
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  4. Frank Herbert _ Dune

    My son will wear the title well, the Duke thought, and realized with a sudden chill that this was another death thought."
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  5. Frank Herbert _ Dune

    Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing.
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  6. Geraldine Brooks _ The Secret Chord

    If soldiering did not interest him, the soldiers themselves were another matter. He loved to sit with the men and draw out their first-hand stories of past campaigns.
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  7. William Shakespeare _ The Tempest

    Good wombs have borne bad sons."-- {Miranda, I:2}
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  8. Amy Tan _ The Joy Luck Club

    And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.
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  9. Nathaniel Hawthorne _ The House of the Seven Gables

    To plant a family! This idea is at the bottom of most of the wrong and mischief which men do. The truth is, that, once in every half century, at longest, a family should be merged into the great, obscure mass of humanity, and forget all about its ancestors.
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  10. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    The inventor knows HOW to borrow.
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  11. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self.
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  12. Barbara W. Tuchman _ The Proud Tower: A Portrait of

    Chronicling future appeasing Prime Minister Joseph Chamberlain's rise to Parliament from first-generation commercial interests rather than the aristocracy, the author diagnoses even then that he had no center outside himself.
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