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The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 1984 by George Orwell The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck Amsterdam by Ian McEwan The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
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The Outsider by Albert Camus
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I opened myself for the first time to the tender indifference of the world.
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