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  1. David Sedaris _ Naked

    The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.
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  2. Isabel Allende _ A Soma dos Dias

    لا يمكن للحب أن يكون مبكرًا أبدًا
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  3. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ Wait Till Next Year

    Well, did anything interesting happen today?' {my father} would begin. And even before the daily question was completed I had eagerly launched into my narrative of every play, and almost every pitch, of that afternoon's contest. It never crossed my mind to wonder if, at the close of a day's work, he might find my lengthy account the least bit tedious. For there was mastery as well as pleasure in our nightly ritual. Through my knowledge, I commanded my father's undivided attention, the sign of his love. It would instill in me an early awareness of the power of narrative, which would introduce a lifetime of storytelling, fueled by the naive confidence that others would find me as entertaining as my father did.
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  4. Arthur Golden _ Memoirs of a Geisha

    A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
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  5. William Styron _ Darkness Visible: A Memoir of

    This sound, which like all music--indeed, like all pleasure--I had been numbly unresponsive to for months, pierced my heart like a dagger, and in a flood of swift recollection I thought of all the joys the house had known: the children who had rushed through its rooms, the festivals, the love and work, the honestly earned slumber, the voices and the nimble commotion, the perennial tribe of cats and dogs and birds, "laughter and ability and Sighing, And Frocks and Curls." All this I realized was more than I could ever abandon, even as what I had set out so deliberately to do was more than I could inflict on those memories, and upon those, so close to me, with whom the memories were bound. And just as powerfully I realized I could not commit this desecration on myself.
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  6. Tom Robbins _ Tibetan Peach Pie: A True

    If I have been given any gift in this life, it's my ability to live simultaneously in the rational world and the world of imagination.
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  7. Terry Tempest Williams _ When Women Were Birds:

    We mask our needs as the needs of others."
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  8. Salman Rushdie _ Joseph Anton: A Memoir

    Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, about the most important things in the world, and you might as well, if you were going to fight it, be called "Rushdie," and stand where your father had placed you, in the tradition of the grand Aristotelian, Averroës, Abul Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd."
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  9. John Grogan _ Bad Dogs Have More Fun:

    In the English language, it all comes down to this: Twenty-six letters, when combined correctly, can create magic. Twenty -six letters form the foundation of a free, informed society.
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  10. Anne Lamott _ Bird by Bird: Some

    I don't know where to start," one {writing student} will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life. Maybe your childhood was grim and horrible, but grim and horrible is Okay if it is well done. Don't worry about doing it well yet, though. Just get it down.
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  11. Anne Lamott _ Bird by Bird: Some

    Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony white finger would emerge from a cloud and point to you, while a chilling voice thundered, "We *told* you not to tell." But that was then. Just put down on paper everything you can remember now about your parents and siblings and relatives and neighbors, and we will deal with libel later on.
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  12. Annie Dillard _ An American Childhood

    I had a head for religious ideas. They were the first ideas I ever encountered. They made other ideas seem mean....I had miles of Bible in memory: some perforce, but most by hap, like the words to songs. There was no corner of my brain where you couldn't find, among the files of clothing labels and heaps of rocks, among the swarms of protozoans and shelves of novels, whole tapes and snarls and reels of Bible.
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