The Seasons of a Man’s Life (1978) by Daniel J. Levinson, et alia, & The Destiny of Men’s Dreams
“A man’s Dream is his personal myth.”
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On the Art of Writing (1916) by Arthur Quiller-Couch & the Dark Age of Lord Coke
“Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it—whole-heartedly—and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.”
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Haroun and Luka (2013) by Salman Rushdie & the Great Storytelling Animal
“There are places in the world where nothing ever happens, and Time stops moving altogether.”
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Pumpkin Farmer (2015) by Michael Hughes & the Carnal Cravings of gods and Men
“She was a stone-faced statue when Horace shut the door and locked it. He walked down the hall, locked the door to the front of the chamber, went upstairs, and made himself some bacon and eggs for breakfast.”
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The Apple of My Eye (2014) by Mary Ellen Bramwell & the Suspicious Nature of Heroism
“They could not feel my anguish nor see the concern in my eyes. They would wake up in the morning as if nothing had happened and make their breakfasts and go to work or school or take care of their children as if the day were like any other. But it wouldn’t be, and I knew it, regardless of what greeted me ahead.”
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A Room with a View (1908) by E.M. Forster & the Music of our Hearts
“And she was tragical only in the sense that she was great, for she loved to play on the side of Victory.”
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Dubliners (1914) by James Joyce & The Creation of True Art
“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”
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Amsterdam (1998) by Ian McEwan & the Booker Winner with Such Twisted Beauty
A superbly written piece of brutal heartlessness and blatant betrayals on all sides.
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This Moment is Your Life (2015) by CG FEWSTON & A Dramatic Reading
Here is a hauntingly good reading of “This Moment is Your Life.”
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The Power of Myth (1988) by Joseph Campbell & Beyond Greedy America as the New Monster State
“The drudgery of the lives of most of the people who have to support families — well, it’s a life-extinguishing affair.”
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A TIME TO LOVE IN TEHRAN (a novel, 2015) by CG FEWSTON & the Road to Love
“Her stare often moved me into speechlessness, captivated me into forgetfulness, and I longed to know what she was thinking without her ever having to say a single word. But I knew such things were impossible for me.”
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Myths to Live By (1972) by Joseph Campbell & the unMasking of ISIS and the Great Debate: Evolution vs Creationism
“Our laws are enacted and altered by human determination, and within their secular jurisdiction each of us is free to seek his own destiny, his own truth, to quest for this or for that and to find it through his own doing.”
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