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  1. Julie Andrews Edwards _ Home: A Memoir of My Early

    Early one beautiful summer evening, when everyone else was drinking indoors, Tony and I walked down to the river. We lay on the grass under a tree and chatted. At one point, Tony said, "Look at the pattern of lace the leaves make against the sky." I looked at the canopy above us, and suddenly saw what he saw. My perspective completely shifted. I realized I didn't have his "eyes" -- though once he pointed it out, it became obvious. It made me think, "My God, I never look enough," and in the years since, I've tried very hard to look -- and look again.
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  2. Haruki Murakami _ A Wild Sheep Chase

    Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain.
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  3. Milan Kundera _ The Festival of Insignificance

    People meet in the course of life, they talk together, they discuss, they quarrel, without realizing that they're talking to one another across a distance, each from an observation post standing in a different place in time."
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  4. Margaret Atwood _ The Handmaid's Tale

    ...otherwise, one of you, most likely the man, would go wandering off on a trajectory of his own, taking his addictive body with him and leaving you with bad withdrawal, which you could counteract by exercise. If you didn't work it out it was because one of you had the wrong attitude. Everything that went on in your life was thought to be due to some positive or negative power emanating from inside your head.
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  5. Margaret Atwood _ Alias Grace

    And then she began to cry, and when I asked her why she was doing that, she said it was because I was to have a happy ending, and it was just like a book; and I wondered what books she'd been reading.
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  6. Margaret Atwood _ Cat's Eye

    Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I'm in better shape than they are.
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  7. Jane Yolen _ Briar Rose

    Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.
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  8. Erik Larson _ Dead Wake: The Last Crossing

    If you had to jump six or seven feet or certainly drown, it's surprising how far even older people will jump.
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  9. Erik Larson _ Dead Wake: The Last Crossing

    There were always those passengers who came aboard bearing grudges against the modern age.
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  10. Niall Ferguson _ Civilization: The West and the

    Historians are not scientists. They cannot {and should not even trying to} establish universal laws of social or political "physics" with reliable predictive powers. Why? Because there is no possibility of repeating the single, multi-millennium experiment that constant to the past. The sample size of human history is one.
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  11. Niall Ferguson _ Civilization: The West and the

    I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.
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  12. Niall Ferguson _ Civilization: The West and the

    The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril
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