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"I am so far completely entranced with this book. I checked it out from the library in an attempt to do some research on the future of journalism in this electronic age, and am completely eyeball deep in the history of Stephen B. Shepard's life. If only the toddler could stay out longer so I can keep reading..." Jul 07, 2013 10:32AM

 
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Cormac McCarthy
“He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.”
Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

Haruki Murakami
“Jean-Jacques Rousseau defined civilization as when people build fences. A very perceptive observation. And it’s true—all civilization is the product of a fenced-in lack of freedom. The Australian Aborigines are the exception, though. They managed to maintain a fenceless civilization until the seventeenth century. They’re dyed-in-the-wool free. They go where they want, when they want, doing what they want. Their lives are a literal journey. Walkabout is a perfect metaphor for their lives. When the English came and built fences to pen in their cattle, the Aborigines couldn’t fathom it. And, ignorant to the end of the principle at work, they were classified as dangerous and antisocial and were driven away, to the outback. So I want you to be careful. The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality only at the risk of being driven into the wilderness yourself.”
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

Dave Eggers
“It seemed the whole world knew this person named Diana, and if the world knew her, the connection between the peoples of the earth was tighter than I had imagined. I wondered if the people of England would mourn if Mike and Grace died. At that time, confused as I was, I imagined that they would.”
Dave Eggers, What Is the What

Dan Chaon
“It's hard to believe that this is how it's done. That this is how we get here into the world, by accident or design, the microscopic pieces of ourselves borne by fluids and blood and growing into a tiny kingdom of cells inside someone else's body It seems so difficult to become alive. So improbable.”
Dan Chaon, You Remind Me of Me

Haruki Murakami
“A bit of shape and form has disappeared from the world, increasing the amount of nothingness.”
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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