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The Curse of the Mistwraith

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Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity

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Mashi: The Unfulfilled Baseball Dreams of Masanori Murakami, the First Japanese Major Leaguer

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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

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one of those people incapable, due to some abnormality of vision or comprehension, of following the movements of a magic act, the way some people go to baseball games and never manage to see the ball in flight; a towering home run is just ...more

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― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

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“Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something...”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

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“What Beatrice had done with her face, actually, was what any plain girl could do. She had overlaid it with dignity, suffering, intelligence, and a piquant dash of bitchiness.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

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“Each of the men I have listed seized a bit of the quicksilver of life, froze it for all time and turned, in the blaze of their creativity, to point at it and cry, "Isn't this good!" And it was good.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

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