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  1. Daniel C. Dennett _ Darwin's Dangerous Idea:

    But if it is true that human minds are themselves to a very great degree the creations of memes, then we cannot sustain the polarity of vision we considered earlier; it cannot be "memes versus us," because earlier infestations of memes have already played a major role in determining who or what we are. The "independent" mind struggling to protect itself from alien and dangerous memes is a myth. There is a persisting tension between the biological imperative of our genes on the one hand and the cultural imperatives of our memes on the other, but we would be foolish to "side with" our genes; that would be to commit the most egregious error of pop sociobiology. Besides, as we have already noted, what makes us special is that we, alone among species, can rise above the imperatives of our genes- thanks to the lifting cranes of our memes.
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  2. Ernesto Sabato _ El túnel

    La experiencia me ha demostrado que lo que a mí me parece claro y evidente casi nunca lo es para el resto de mis semejantes. Estoy tan quemado que ahora vacilo mil veces antes de ponerme a justificar o a explicar una actitud mía y, casi siempre, termino por encerrarme en mí mismo y no abrir la boca." "Experience has taught me that what seems clear and evident for me almost never is for the rest of my fellow men. I am so burned that I now usually hesitate before trying to explain or justify one of my attitudes, and I almost always end up shutting myself off and not saying anything.
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  3. Billy Collins _ The Trouble With Poetry - And

    On Not Finding You at HomeUsually you appear at the front doorwhen you hear my steps on the gravel,but today the door was closed,not a wisp of pale smoke from the chimney.I peered into a windowbut there was nothing but a table with a comb,some yellow flowers in a glass of waterand dark shadows in the corners of the room.I stood for a while under the big treeand listened to the wind and the birds,your wind and your birds,your dark green woods beyong the clearing.This is not what it is like to be you,I realized after a few of your magnificent cloudsflew over the rooftop.It is just me thinking about being you.And before I headed back down the hill,I walked in a circle around your house,making an invisible linewhich you would have to cross before dark.
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  4. Beverly Cleary _ Fifteen

    She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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  5. Jim Morrison _ Wilderness: The Lost Writings,

    In the holy solipsism of the youngNow I can't walk thru a citystreet w/out eying eachsingle pedestrian. I feelthier vibe thru myskin, the hair on my neck--- it rises.
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  6. Thomas Pynchon _ V.

    For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories, and codes, even the inescapable romantic curiosity about one another, to indulge in being simply and purely young, to share that sense of the world's affliction, that outgoing sorrow at the spectacle of Our Human Condition which anyone this age regards as reward or gratuity for having survived adolescence.For them the music was sweet and painful, the strolling chains of tourists like a Dance of Death. They stood on the curb, gazing at one another, jostled against by hawkers and sightseers, lost as much perhaps in that bond of youth as in the depths of the eyes each contemplated.
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  7. Sophie Kinsella _ Remember Me?

    It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be...Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight.I'm old.
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