Bookends of Brilliance
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"They called him Ma Ma Gombe, Ma Ma Water, out of respect and not mockery, because they were too wise to mock him."
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"For a while longer they lie still. Then he whispers, 'Be good,' and then he whispers, 'Forgive me'."
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"The news that our district was to be visited by a celebrated actor had spread throughout the mountain area of Phoenix of the Sky."
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"We shall never cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.."
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"It was a quiet morning, the town covered over with darkness and at ease in bed."
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"It's goodbye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies."
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"All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains."
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"On the heels of their arranged wedding, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts."
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"The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep."
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"Before my wife turned vegetarian, I thought of her as completely unremarkable in every way.“
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"Cash isn't the only thing I take from my father's study when I leave home."
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"I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the valley of Panjsher on my lips. I ran."
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"If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog."
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"He reached the top of the bank in a single, powerful leap. Hazel followed; and together they slipped away.."
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"If you’re going to read this, don’t bother."
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"We're all mad here."
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"It is the beginning of wisdom, to recognize that the unexpected may happen."
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"Man is not truly one, but truly two."
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"The last few days of my life have taught me never to trust a rabbit."
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"Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person."
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"And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea."
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The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years—if it ever did end—began..
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"They were both right."
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"Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm."
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"This is the saddest story I have ever heard."
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"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."
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"The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning.."
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"But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive.."
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"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents.."
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"There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe,.."
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"In the first weeks of World War II, in the fall of 1939, a six-year-old boy from a large city in Eastern Europe was sent by his parents.."
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"Up out of the lampshade, startled by the overhead light, flew a large nocturnal butterfly that began circling the room.."
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"Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were - Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter."
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"Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye and sailed back over a year.."
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"True!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?"
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"Later on he will understand how some men so loved her, that they did dare much for her sake."
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"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.."
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"For Siddalee Walker, the need to understand has passed, at least for the moment. All that was left was love and wonder."
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"Carla heard the car coming before it topped the little rise in the road that around here they called a hill."
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"In the meantime, she would just live."
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