Bookends of Brilliance

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"The rest is silence."
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"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."
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"Yukiko's diarrhoea persisted through the twenty-sixth, and was a problem on the train to Tokyo."
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"In the spirit of the dead, the living, and the unborn, empty your ears of all impurities, o listener, that you may hear my story."
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"There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it..."
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"We should begin with the house, the house that made me."
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"As I left China farther and farther behind, I looked out of the window and saw a great universe beyond the plane's silver wing."
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"I say that Nhamo's grandmother was a witch because the people of the village said so. And she was."
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"He is coming, and I am here."
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"We didn't call it Lagos then. The name was Eko, a name that must have belonged to our ancestors.."
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"This is not a full circle. It's Life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we make to get on with it."
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"Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal across the room.."
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"The white man whose power you know too well has ordered this meeting to stop."
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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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