a dog wearing a red collar is sitting in a car Alt: a dog wearing a red collar is sitting in a car

He remembered well, with the curious patient memory of the celibate, the first casual caresses her dress, her breath, her fingers had given him…He remembered well her eyes, the touch of her hand and his delirium...

James Joyce, Dubliners

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While aimlessly floating at sea on a raft made of his luggage, Joe Banks witnesses moonrise over and endless ocean, in JOE VS. THE VOLCANO Artwork by Brianna Ashby

Even a life raft is only supposed to get you from the sinking ship back to land, you were never intended to live in the life raft, to drift years on end, in sight of land but never close enough.

Nick Flynn - Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

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Ethan Hawke and Jed in 1991’s WHITE FANG

“Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him.”

Jack London, White Fang

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Ghostly shipwreck silhouetted against eerie light

I take pride withal in my humiliation, as I am to this privilege condemned; I am, I believe, alone of all our race, the only man in human memory to have been shipwrecked and cast up upon a deserted ship.

Umberto Eco - The Island of the Day Before

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Faye Bainter and Danny Kaye in THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY

″Hmm?” said Walter Mitty. He looked at his wife, in the seat beside him, with shocked astonishment. She seemed grossly unfamiliar, like a strange woman who had yelled at him in a crowd.

THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY - James Thurber

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…he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly always doing it.

Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

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The fight to the death between Tarzan and Kerchak Digital Art by Daryl Mandryk

As his antagonist came roaring toward him, Lord Greystoke tore his long knife from its sheath, and with an answering challenge as horrid and bloodcurdling as that of the beast he faced, rushed swiftly to meet the attack

Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

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Cover of THE DAY OF THE JACKAL

The Englishman’s eyes were open and stared back with frank candour. Except for the irises, which were of flecked grey so that they seemed smoky like the hoar mist on a winter’s morning. It took Rodin a few seconds to realize that they had no expression at all.

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a teddy bear is sitting at a table with a boy and says " you will break " Alt: a teddy bear is sitting at a table with a boy and says " you will break "

An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.

Brian W. Aldiss, Supertoys Last All Summer Long (adapted into A.I. Artificial Intelligence)

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two military men are standing next to each other on a runway . Alt: Goose and Maverick about to get their read on… I feel the need… the need to read

“The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”

Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley and Malcolm X

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Cover of A CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND POEMS BY LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI NEW DIRECTIONS PAPERBOOK

I am waiting for my case to come up
and I am waiting
for a rebirth of wonder
and I am waiting for someone
to really discover America
and wail.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti - A Coney Island of the Mind

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Book Cover for DOUGLAS ADAMS AUTHOR OF THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY 'A pleasure to read' NEW YORK TIMES

Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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Cover of OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS WILLIAM GODWIN’S CALEB WILLIAMS featuring William Blake’s painting The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun

To do what is forbidden always has its charms, because we have an indistinct apprehension of something arbitrary and tyrannical in the prohibition.

Caleb Williams by William Godwin

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“And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,

Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!”

Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll

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A winter scene - trees on a snowy field - and the following poem… Winter Earth bears her sorrow gladly, like a nun, Her young face glowing through the icy veil. The storms that threaten her, the winds that rail, Kindle a deeper color. She has won Graces that please the high-enthroned sun; Across her soft white robes that drift and wail He casts his lordly purples, lest she quail With the dead year, and think that all is done. She leadeth on through desolate sad days, A smile upon her lips, a triumph-song Shut in her heart. Be glad! so singeth she; Glad of the solitude, the silent ways, Even of the pain; so shall thy soul grow strong For the brave spring that comes to set us free. Harriet Monroe

Winter - Harriet Monroe (1896)

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