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The difficulty in life is the choice. George Moore
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LePore Top 100 Novels #100, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, M Kundera. How deep into our subconscious does the process of choosing go?
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If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs if we had some eggs. Anonymous Depression Quote
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LePore Top 100 Novels #99, Cannery Row. Gritty, funny, sad. The human condition as seen by JS, and he sees it with x-ray vision.
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In the long run of history the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. A. Griswold,
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Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. Heinrich Heine,
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The paper burns, but the words fly away. Akiba ben Joseph
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LePore Top 100 Novels #98, Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury. Repression and censorship vs. the human spirit. We win, and we always will.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us. Francois Rabelais
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LePore Top 100 Novels #97, The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene. The ancient struggle between desire and obligation. Your heart will ache.
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You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you. Trotsky?
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You go back to her and I go back to us. Amy Winehouse, Back to Black. The pain of the love triangle
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LePore Top 100 Novels #96, King, Queen, Knave, Nabokov. Funny, erotic, the master at his most accessible.
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How much more damaging are the consequences of your anger than its causes. Marcus Aurelius
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LePore Top 100 Novels #95, The Mill On The Floss, George Eliot. High drama, what the English ethic used to be, but is no more.
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Laugh if you can, or failing that, give vent In hissing fury to your discontent. Robertson Davies
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LePore Top 100 Novels #94, The Salterton Trilogy, Robertson Davies. Unmatchable comedic writing, and very wise.
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Loneliness is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. Thomas Wolfe
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LePore Top 100 novels #95, Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin. A master at work. Painful and beautiful.
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Its one thing to kill in defense of your home, your family, your country. Its another thing when you kill for money or power. Louis L’Amour.
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LePore Top 100 Novels #94, Silver Canyon, Louis L’Amour. The drifter comes to town. Style and substance and a timeless theme.
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No man can save his brother’s soul, or pay his brother’s debt. Matthew Arnold.
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LePore Top 100 Novels #93, Dark Star: A Novel, Alan Furst. Pre-WWII espionage. Much better than LeCarre. Deep research and great writing.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. Hesse
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LePore Top 100 Novels #s 91, Mr. Bridge and 92, Mrs. Bridge. The sadness and emptiness of two American lives. Will pierce your heart.
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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire. Heraclitus
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LePore Top 100 Novels #90, A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess. Prophetic: Alex and his droogs have reappeared on the streets of London.
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Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
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LePore Top 100 Novels #89, Beat to Quarters, C.S. Forester. High, grand adventure, but HH has an internal life as well.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war. Plato
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LePore Top 100 Novels #’s 87, 88: The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk. WWII. I envy those who have yet to read them.
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There was a thing called Christianity. The ethics of under-consumption. So essential when there was under-production; but…Brave New World.
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LePore Top 100 Novels #86, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley. The best combination of sci-fi and satire ever written.
jimlepore James LePore A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. Robert Frost
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LePore Top 100 Novels #85, Other Voices, Other Rooms, Truman Capote. Capote has x-ray vision into the human heart. His first and best novel.
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Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. Mark Twain
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LePore Top 100 Novels #84, Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad. The PC crowd doesn’t like it, but to me that’s a great recommendation.
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To the impassioned will all things by possible. Thornton Wilder
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LePore Top 100 Novels #83, Theophilus North, Thornton Wilder. You won’t stop smiling as Theophilus (God’s handyman) fixes everybody.
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You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. Diane Arbus
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LePore To 100 Novels #82, Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham. The story of club-footed Philip is the story of all of us flawed humans.
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LePore Top 100 novels #81, Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence. The Oedipal complex in all its miserable glory. Genius at work.
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Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all. Jean Genet
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LePore Top 100 Novels #80, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark. Short and bitter-sweet. NB: The flash-forward as a plot device.
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LePore Top 100 Novels #79, Losing Battles, Eudora Welty. Told almost completely in dialogue, a southern family in all its crazy glory.
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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. Blaise Pascal
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LePore Top 100 Novels # 78, Atonement, Ian McEwan. The fiction monster destroys and blesses.
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten. Henry Louis Mencken
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LePore Top 100 Novels #77, All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren. American politics laid bare, and not a pretty picture.
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The ultimate disease of our time is valuelessness. This state is more crucially dangerous than ever before in history. Abraham Maslow
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LePore Top 100 Novels #76, Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler. Stalin’s Russia, the worker’s paradise. A classic.
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We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden
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LePore Top 100 Novels #75, A Dance to the Music of Time, A. Powell. The human heart at work over a fifty year period. Never out of print.
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LePore Top 100 Novels #74, We Don’t Live Here Anymore, Andre Dubus. Dubus’ realness is as good as it gets. His characters are you and me.
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I am on your side. But you have no way of knowing it, because your heart is blind. The Stranger
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LePore Top 100 Novels #73, A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul. Colonial Africa through the eyes of an uprooted shopkeeper. A masterpiece.
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LePore Top 100 Novels #72, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe. NY’s 1980’s soul laid bare. Some say the city’s changed, but has it?
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Nathan Detroit: I have been running this crap game since I was a juvenile delinquent.
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LePore Top 100 Novels #71, Dream Street, D. Runyon. If I have all the tears that are shed on Broadway by guys in love, I will have enough…
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Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure, as if we lived on the marrow of koodoos devoured raw. Henry David Thoreau
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LePore Top 100 Novels #70, The Call of the Wild, Jack London. Nietzsche would have loved Buck, the dog as superman.
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I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart. Vincent van Gogh
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May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country. Daniel Webster
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LePore Top 100 Novels #69, Rabble in Arms, Ken Roberts. America begins. There were definitely angels in this whirlwind. Happy 4th to all.
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If you are looking for a big opportunity, seek out a big problem. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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LePore Top 100 Novels #68, Kidnapped. There’s something about the Scots, from the paranoid and miserly to the incredibly brave. Classic.
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Any kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary. Nathan Hale
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LePore Top 100 Novels #67, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, J. le Carré. Not James Bond. The only cold war spy novel you’ll have to read.
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God calls you to the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet. Frederick Buechner
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From a certain point onward there s no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. Franz Kafka
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People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. Rebecca West
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LePore Top 100 Novels #66, A Room with a View, E. M. Forster. A woman breaking free. The 20th century begins.
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LePore Top 100 Novels #65, The Remains of the Day, K. Ishiguro. An emotionally stunted butler doesn’t sound like much but it’s a masterpiece.
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Live to the point of tears. Camus
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LePore Top 100 Novels #64, Washington Square, Henry James. Can cruelty ever be justified? Shattering.
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They have tied me to a stake. I cannot fly, but, bear-like, I must fight the course. William Shakespeare
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Boredom is the root of all evil – the despairing refusal to be oneself. Soren Kierkegaard
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LePore Top 100 Novels #63, The Moviegoer, Walker Percy is the American Camus, only with a sense of humor. Deep waters, but very rewarding.
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Mr. Knightley: Vanity working on a weak mind produces every kind of mischief.
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LePore Top 100 Novels #62, Emma, Jane Austen. Spoiled, rich, meddling, above-it-all, how can you not love Emma?
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Weimar Berlin, the prime breeding ground of evil. Ben Hecht
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LePore Top 100 Novels #61, Goodbye To Berlin, Christopher Isherwood. Sally Bowles made famous by Isherwood’s “camera” and beautiful prose.
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I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year. Becky Sharp
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LePore Top Novels #60, Vanity Fair. The omniscient narrator at work in high style, more fun and mordant than its only rival, War
and Piece.
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As a remedy to life in society, I suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. Albert Camus
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LePore Top 100 Novels #59, Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser. The girl in the city. Harshly realistic, the great urban novel.
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Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
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LePore Top 100 Novels #58, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, G. Bassani. A walled garden cannot keep out the Nazis in Italy. Sad. Beautiful.
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LePore Top 100 Novels #57, Deliverance, James Dickey. Men in the wilderness, before PC, confronting monsters, external and internal.
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It is curious—curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. Mark Twain
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LePore Top 100 Novels #56, Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner. Quiet, ordinary lives made heroic by Stegner’s magic. High art.
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King Louis: There are those who dedicate their lives to truth, honor, and freedom…the Musketeers. Rise, D’Artagnan, and join
them.
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LePore Top 100 Novels #55, The Three Musketeers, A. Dumas. Athos, Aramis, D’Artagnon: One For All! Sets the standard for swashbucklers.
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Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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LePore Top 100 Novels #54, The Awakening, Kate Chopin. Extremely controversial in its day, heartbreaking, an American classic.
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Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. Oscar Wilde
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LePore Top 100 Novels, #53, East of Eden,John Steinbeck. Rambling and riveting, the terrible pull of family love—and hate.
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Memorial Day: A day set aside in memory of all American soldiers who have given their lives for their country.
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LePore Top 100 Novels #52, All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque. Banned in Nazi Germany. Stark, simple, devastating.
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@AdviceToWriters When asked what he was trying to do, Hem’s answer was, “Get it right.”
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A really good detective never gets married. Raymond Chandler
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LePore Top 100 Novels #51, The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins. The first detective novel. A priceless diamond is stolen and a genre begins.
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One is not born a woman, one becomes one. Simone de Beauvoir
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LePore Top 100 Novels #50, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte. High drama, the first feminist novel.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. Andre Gide
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LePore Top 100 Novels #49, Anna Karenina. Aristocratic Czarist Russians speak French and have affairs. Tolstoy exposes their hell. High art.
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A true friend stabs you in the front. Oscar Wilde
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LePore Top 100 Novels #48, Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry. The great hero myth of Texas. Untouchable elucidation of friendship.
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Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness. Friedrich Nietzsche
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LePore Top 100 Novels #47, Silas Marner, George Elliot. Opium addiction, bitterness, cruelty. The broken human spirit, saved by love.
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…the epitaph drear, “A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.” Rudyard Kipling
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LePore Top 100 Novels #46, A Passage To India. Forster knew that India, more than any country on earth, calls to us all. His masterpiece.
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Yet ’tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will; the very devils cannot plague them better. William Shakespeare
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LePore Top 100 Novels #45, Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier. The 20th century Jane Eyre. “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again…”
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No socialist system can be established without a political police. Winston Churhill
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. Winston Churchill
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You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. Winston Churchill
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LePore Top 100 Novels #44, 1984. Revolution betrayed by totalitarian fanatics. Orwell’s classic cautionary tale is more relevant than ever.
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A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven. George Bernard Shaw
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LePore Top 100 Novels #43, In Cold Blood, Truman Capote. The start of a new genre, a spellbinding masterpiece that changed the way we think.
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The heart of the wise man lives in the house of pain; the heart of the fool lives in the house of mirth. Ecclesiastes 7:4
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LePore Top 100 Novels #42, The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton. One woman’s descent into the hell of social elitism.
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But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else. E. M. Forster
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LePore Top 100 Novels #41, The Raj Quartet, Paul Scott. Colonialism, racism, heroism. Life at ground level in India prior to the breakup.
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Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true. Luigi Pirandello
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LePore Top 100 Novels #40, The Metamorphosis. Kafka’s fable of the absurd.
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Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. George Washington
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LePore Top 100 Novels #39, The Last of the Mohicans. Still in print and enthralling adventure lovers 185 years after it was first published.
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The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. Ulrich Beck
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LePore Top 100 Novels #38, The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann. Life among the chronically ill. Strange, complex, brilliant. Modernity exposed.
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LePore Top 100 Novels #37, The Wanderers, Richard Price. Get ready for the ride of your life. Raw and riveting.
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He who does not punish evil commands it to be done. Leonardo da Vinci
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The most persistent sound which reverberates through men’s history is the beating of war drums. Arthur Koestler
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LePore Top 100 Novels #36, A Farewell To Arms, Papa at his best: lean, honest prose, the bleakness of war and personal tragedy side by side.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. Dwight D. Eisenhower
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LePore Top 100 Novels #35, I Claudius, Robert Graves. Liberty versus dictatorship in ancient Rome. Graves writes as if he lived it.
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The privilege of absurdity, to which no living creature is subject but man only. Thomas Hobbes
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LePore Top 100 Novels #34, Catch 22, Joseph Heller. I’ve read it three times. Heller is America’s Kafka.
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If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright. Sophocles
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LePore Top Novel #33, The Oxbow Incident, Walter Van Tilberg Clark. Chilling.
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What you do not wish upon yourself, extend not to others. Analect ( Lun Yu ) – Confucius 15:24 and 12:5
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LePore Top 100 Novels #32, The Good Earth, Pearl Buck. No stylistic complexity, no irony, just a great story about China at its core.
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Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. Stephen King
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LePore Top 100 novels #31, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, B. Travern. How greed corrodes the soul. Written in 1927, it’s message is timeless.
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Gentleman songsters off on a spree Doomed from here to eternity Lord have mercy on such as we The Whiffenpoof Song
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LePore Top 100 Novels #30, From Here To Eternity, James Jones (Max Perkins’ last great author at Scribner) Pearl Harbor just before 12/7/41.
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Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless. Charles M. Crowe
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Have the courage to live, anyone can die. Robert Cody
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LePore Top 100 novels #29. Shane, Jack Schaeffer. ‘What a man knows isn’t important. It’s what he is that counts.’
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From High Wind in Jamaica: Their minds are not just more ignorant and stupider than ours, but differ in kind of thinking, are
mad, in fact.
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LePore Top 100 Novels #28, High Wind In Jamaica, Richard Hughes. The madness of children on their own. You will not forget this book.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. Honore de Balzac
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LePore Top 100 Novels #27, Ivanhoe, Walter Scott. High drama, high adventure, Robin Hood, chivalry, romance, it has it all.
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We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby. W. Somerset Maugham
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LePore Top 100 Novels #26, The Forsyte Saga (all 7), John Galsworthy. High-end soap opera, the best ever written.
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The full name of the city of Los Angeles: Ciudad de Nuestra Senora, La Reina de Los Angeles. (City of Our Lady, Queen of the Angels).
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LePore Top 100 Novels #25, Ask The Dust, John Fante. The real Los Angeles
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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. John Milton.
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LePore Top 100 Novels #24, The Go-Between, L.P. Hartley. “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.”
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. Oscar Wilde
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LePore Top 100 Novels #23: Tai-Pan, James Clavell. Drama, action, the founding of Hong Kong. The individual as hero. Better than Rand.
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Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart, and bids it break. William Shakespeare
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LePore Top 100 Novels #22, So Long, See You Tomorrow, William Maxwell. 135 pages of sheer genius. WM might be the best American writer ever.
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Native American wisdom: 2 wolves are battling inside of us. The first is the wolf of love. The other is hatred. The one we feed will win.
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LePore Top 100 Novels #21, Laughing Boy, Oliver LaForge. All you need to know about the Native American experience in the West.
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In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end. Alexis de Tocqueville.
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LePore Top 100 Novels #20, My Antonia. The American West brought to vivid life. Cather’s first of several masterpieces.
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What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame. Friedrich Nietzsche. (I’m on a roll with his guy).
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LePore Top 100 Novels #19, To Kill A Mockingbird. “The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
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The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. Friedrich Nietzsche
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LePore Top 100 Novels #18, Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis. Academic conformity and asininity exposed. Modern satire at its hilarious best.
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LePore Top 100 Novels #17: Portrait of a Lady, Henry James. The great novel of betrayal and old world money unmasked.
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Instead of thy fathers shall be thy sons, whom thou shalt make princes in all the earth. Psalm 46:16
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If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. Winston Churchill
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“Every busy soul needs a place of repose.” Line spoken by the character Vincent Rizzo (played by Andy Garcia) in the movie City Island.
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LePore Top 100 Novels #16, Gone With The Wind. The title and the central characters are imprinted on the American psyche.
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“Sooner or later, Mr. Fowler, one has to take sides, if one is to remain human.” From The Quiet American.
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LePore Top 100 Novels, #15, The Quiet American, Graham Greene. He saw Viet Nam coming. A quietly great novel.
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
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LePore Top 100 Novels #14, The Leopard, Guiseppe di Lampedusa. Moral decadence remorselessly exposed. A must read.
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LePore Top 100 Novels #13, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov. Spellbinding.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? Albert Camus
LePore Top 100 Novels, #12: The Stranger, Albert Camus. On his worst day Camus left Sartre in the dust.
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LePore Top 100 Novels #11, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh. The operation of God’s grace, often unearned, in our lives. Waugh’s best.
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“Silence, exile and cunning.” James Joyce. (What you need to write).
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Life’s richest gifts flow from frustration and cruelty and separation. Thornton Wilder
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LePore Top 100 Novels #10: Madame Bovary. We take realism for granted, but Flaubert was the first to portray life as it actually is.
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LePore Top 100 novels #9, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers. Published when she was only 23, a masterpiece.
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LePore Top 100 Novels #8, The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck. The Joads are now a permanent part of our national consciousness.
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The heart has reasons that reason does not know. Blaise Pascal
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LePore Top 100 Novels #7, The Sun Also Rises. Hemingway and Fitzgerald: the first modern American novelists.
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LePore Top 100 Novels #6: A Death In The Family, James Agee. A simple narrative with a profound emotional impact. An American classic.
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Your language becomes clear and strong not when you can no longer add, but when you can no longer take away. Isaac Babel
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LePore Top 100 novels, #5, Bang the Drum Slowly, Mark Harris. Not about baseball, about the largeness of the human heart.
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LePore Top 100 Novels, #4: Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austin. Character, honor, moral judgment, stubbornness, selfishness. The human condition.
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Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t. Richard Bach
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LePore Top 100 Novels, #3: The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Comes closest to being the great American novel.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. Franz Kafka
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LePore Top 100 Novels, #2: The Woman of Andros, Thornton Wilder. It’s about how we live, and must be read.
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LePore Top 100 Novels #1: Cry The Beloved Country, Alan Paton. Two fathers bury their sons, and apartheid begins to crumble.
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The individual is the only reality. Carl Gustav Jung
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What is uttered from the heart alone, will win the hearts of others to your own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. Mark Twain
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We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break. Marquise de Sévigné
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As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, they kill us for their sport. King Lear Act 4, scene 1, 32–37
A World I Never Made 
