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  1. Mark Helprin _ Winter's Tale

    There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.
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  2. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe.
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  3. John Steinbeck _ East of Eden

    While the churches, bringing the sweet smell of piety for the soul, came in prancing and farting like brewery horses in bock-beer time, the sister evangelism, with release and joy for the body, crept in.silently and greyly, with its head bowed and its face covered.
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  4. Cormac McCarthy _ Blood Meridian, or the Evening

    Pick a man, any man. That man there. See him. That man hatless. You know his opinion of the world. You can read it in his face, in his stance. Yet his complaint that a man's life is no bargain masks the actual case with him. Which is that men will not do as he wishes them to. Have never done, never will do. That's the way of things with him and his life is so balked about by difficulty and become so altered of its intended architecture that he is little more than a walking hovel hardly fit to house the human spirit at all. Can he say, such a man, that there is no malign thing set against him? That there is no power and no force and no cause? What manner of heretic could doubt agency and claimant alike? Can he believe that the wreckage of his existence is unentailed? No liens, no creditors? That gods of vengeance and of compassion alike lie sleeping in their crypt and whether our cries are for an accounting or for the destruction of the ledgers altogether they must evoke only the same silence and that it is this silence which will prevail?
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  5. Susan Cooper _ Silver on the Tree

    All life is theatre,' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves....
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  6. Anaïs Nin _ The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol.

    Introspection does not need to be a still life. It can be an active alchemy."
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  7. Milan Kundera _ Slowness

    Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in bathing suits fling themselves into the water, it is joy itself that shows in the gesture, notwithstanding any sadness the divers may actually feel. When someone jumps into the water fully clothed, it is another thing entirely: the only person who jumps into the water fully clothed is a person trying to drown; and a person trying to drown does not dive headfirst; he lets himself fall: thus speaks the immemorial language of gestures.
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  8. Anthony Burgess _ A Clockwork Orange

    The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" intro to first full American version 1986
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  9. Orson Scott Card _ Ruins

    Oh, people get used to so many things," said Vadesh, "if only they give them selves a chance.
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  10. Philip K. Dick _ The Skull

    You're an unusual person," she said. "Bill didn't like you, but he never likes anything different. He's so-so prosaic. Don't you think that when a person gets older he should become-broadened in his outlook?
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  11. Philip K. Dick _ The Skull

    What if he could see this, his own skull, yellow and eroded? Two centuries old. Would he still speak? Would he speak, if he could see it, the grinning, aged skull? What would there be for him to say, to tell the people? What message could he bring?What action would not be futile, when a man could look upon his own aged, yellowed skull?
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  12. Philip K. Dick _ A Scanner Darkly

    You put on a bishop's robe and miter, he pondered, and walk around in that, and people bow and genuflect and like that, and try to kiss your ring, if not your ass, and pretty soon you're a bishop. So to speak. What is identity? he asked himself. Where does the act end? Nobody knows.
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