The Notebook (1996) by Nicholas Sparks & Young Love
“You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
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The Arabian Nights (1704) translated by Sir Richard Burton & the Non-Humans of Old
“So they went thither, Prince Ahmad following her footsteps; and on reaching it he was filled with wonder to see its vaulted roof of exquisite workmanship and adorned with gold and lapis lazuli and paintings and ornaments, whose like was nowhere to be found in the world.”
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The Complete Illustrated Works of the Brothers Grimm (1812) by Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm & the “True Bride”
“‘This is my true Bride,’ said he… The true wedding was celebrated with great pomp and happiness.”
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The Analects of Confucius (ca. 500 BCE), translation by Annping Chin (2014) & Bits of Wisdom
The Master said, “The wise are never perplexed. The humane never suffer from vexation. The brave are never afraid.”
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Green Hills of Africa (1935) by Ernest Hemingway & Thoughts on Writers
“You find that it is the thing he is writing about that is interesting. Not the way it is written.”
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Matthew Harffy ~ Author Interview
“Just finish the first draft and go for it!”
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Letters Over The Wall: Life in Communist East Germany (2015) by David F. Strack & the 30th Anniversary, 1989-2019
“I hope that a Wende for better times will take place.”
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Stages on Life’s Way (1845) by Søren Kierkegaard & Connections to Nabokov’s Lolita (1955)
“The esthetic hero must have his opposition outside himself, not in himself.”
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The Overstory (2018) by Richard Powers & the Power of Trees
“What do all good stories do… They kill you a little. They turn you into something you weren’t.”
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Hippie (2018) by Paulo Coelho & the Virtue of Intuition
“At that moment, she basked in a world without questions or answers. Without doubts or convictions. She basked in a world that was one with her.”
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Finnegans Wake (1939) by James Joyce & the Great Irish Novel
“We may come, touch and go, from atoms and ifs but we’re presurely destined to be odd’s without ends.”
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The Magic Mountain (1924) by Thomas Mann & the Natures of Love & Death
“Death and love—no, I cannot make a poem of them, they don’t go together. Love stands opposed to death.”
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Less (2017) by Andrew Sean Greer & the Blue Suit
“I don’t mean the middle America of small minds and malt shops, or midcentury America, but rather the middle, the muddle, the void of America.”
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The Sunlight Dialogues (1972) by John Gardner & the Great American Read
“It was beautiful, sad and unreal, where the sunlight struck. You felt as though life would be different there, the air lighter and cooler, the silence more profound.”
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Selected Poems of Rūmī (2011) by Jalāl’l-Dīn Rūmī & the States of Grace
“The soul says to her base earthly parts, ‘My exile is more bitter than yours: I am celestial.’”
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