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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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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The Remains of the Day (1989) by Kazuo Ishiguro & On the Nature of Dignity
“And if some of us are prepared to sacrifice much in life in order to pursue such aspirations, surely that is in itself, whatever the outcome, cause for pride and contentment.”
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In Search of Lost Time, Vol. VI: Time Regained (1927) by Marcel Proust & the Lost Paradises
“I thought her very beautiful: still rich in hopes, full of laughter, formed from those very years which I myself had lost, she was like my own youth.”
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In Search of Lost Time, Vol. IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (1921/1922) by Marcel Proust & the Common Oblivion
“A common oblivion obliterates everything… The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth than the latter to remember what I was before it.”
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In Search of Lost Time, Vol. III: The Guermantes Way (1920/1921) by Marcel Proust & Oriane’s Enchanted World of Names
“And my eyes resting upon her fair hair, her blue eyes, the lines of her neck… I cried out with myself as I admired this deliberately unfinished sketch: ‘How lovely she is! What true nobility! It is indeed a proud Guermantes.’”
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In Search of Lost Time, Vol. II: Within a Budding Grove (1919) by Marcel Proust & the Fairy Wood of Love
“The reason why a work of genius is not easily admired from the first is that the man who has created it is extraordinary, that few other men resemble him.”
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In Search of Lost Time, Vol. I: Swann’s Way (1913) by Marcel Proust & the Pathways of Perception
“They seemed to me now no more than the purely subjective, impotent, illusory creations of my temperament.”
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Working with Emotional Intelligence (1998) by Daniel Goleman & Systems Theory
Some “secrets of success”: “rapport, empathy, persuasion, cooperation, and consensus building.”
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What Light (2016) by Jay Asher & the Challenges of Teenage Love during the Holidays
“How much do I honestly know about him? And he knows even less about me.”
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13 Reasons Why (2007) by Jay Asher & the Power of Words
‘You can hear rumors,’ I said, ‘but you can’t know them.’
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The Stories of John Cheever (1978) by John Cheever & the Creation of Fiction as Art
“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos.”
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His Bloody Project (2015) by Graeme Macrae Burnet & Questions of Innocence
“I opened my eyes and watched the droplets of water fly up like sparks from a fire.”
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Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016) by Madeleine Thien & the Book of Records
“The pianist could speak with both the quickstep of the city and the balladry of the countryside, he was a one-man Book of Songs and Book of History.”
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You are the Universe: Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why it Matters (2017) by Deepak Chopra and Menas Kafatos & Where Thoughts Come From
“You are the creator of reality, and yet you have no idea how you do it—the process is effortless… In ancient India, the Vedic sages declared Aham Brahmasmi, which can be translated as ‘I am the Universe’ or ‘I am everything.’ They arrived at this knowledge by diving deep into their own awareness.”
