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  1. Dan Simmons _ Hyperion

    Tyrena did not laugh again but her smile slashed upward in a twist of green lips. "Martin, Martin, Martin," she said, "the population of literate people has been declining steadily since Gutenberg's day. By the twentieth century, less than two percent of the people in the so-called industrialized democracies read even one book a year. And that was before the smart machines, dataspheres, and user-friendly environments.
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  2. E.M. Forster _ Maurice

    People turned out to be alive. Hitherto he had supposed that they were what he pretended to be - flat pieces of cardboard stamped with a conventional design… there came by no process of reason a conviction that they were human beings with feelings akin to his own.
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  3. Douglas Adams _ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the

    Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
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  4. Edith Wharton _ The Age of Innocence

    There were certain things that had to be done, and if done at all, done handsomely and thoroughly; and one of these, in the old New York code, was the tribal rally around a kinswoman about to be eliminated from the tribe.
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  5. Eric Schlosser _ Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs,

    A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.
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  6. Jim Thompson _ The Killer Inside Me

    We're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing police duty. The politicians are preachers, and the preachers are politicians. The tax collectors collect for themselves. The Bad People want us to have more dough, and the good people are fighting to keep it from us. It's not good for us, know what I mean? If we had all we wanted to eat, we'd eat too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry. That's the way I understand it. That's about the size of some of the arguments I've heard.
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  7. Haruki Murakami _ 1Q84

    It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.''And those troubling things are all you /can/ think about when you're one of the few.''That's about the size of it,' she said mournfully. 'But maybe, if you're in a situation like that, you learn to think for yourself.''Yes, but maybe what you end up thinking for yourself /about/ is all those troubling things.
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  8. Margaret Atwood _ The Handmaid's Tale

    Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.
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  9. Margaret Atwood _ The Handmaid's Tale

    Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.
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