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MORNING AND EVENING TALK by Naguib Mahfouz
Book Quote: “He let his contempt be known from the first day. He wondered how people distinguished by nothing but their possession of weapons could usurp government. Did it mean then that brigands...
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THE MUSEUM OF INNOCENCE by Orhan Pamuk
Book Quote: “ I would go to the Merhamet Apartments, and, reflecting upon the happy hours Fusun and I had spent there, I would lose myself in daydreams, admiring my slowly growing “collection” with...
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CAIRO MODERN by Naguib Mahfouz
Book Quote: “The appointment of government officials is rigged, the award of contracts is rigged, and the elections themselves are rigged: so why shouldn’t the choice of a beauty queen also be rigged.”...
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SUMMERTIME by J. M. Coetzee
Book Quote: “Best to cut yourself free of what you love – cut yourself free and hope the wound heals.” Book Review: Review by Bonnie Brody (JAN 31, 2010) Summertime is the brilliant new book by J. M....
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THE CHANGELING by Kenzaburo Oe
Book Quote: “Now forget the dead, forget even the living. Turn your mind only to the unborn.” Book Review: Review by Roger Brunyate (AUG 16, 2010) Fractal designs, such as used to be popular twenty...
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THE MUSEUM OF INNOCENCE by Orhan Pamuk
Book Quote: “Happiness means being close to the one you love, that’s all.” Book Review: Review by Helen Ditouras (OCT 7, 2010) I don’t know why I resisted Orhan Pamuk all of these years, but one...
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THE ELEPHANT’S JOURNEY by Jose Saramago
Book Quote: “It is said, once tolstoy had said it first, that all happy families are alike, and there is really little more to say about them. It would seem that the same is true of happy elephants....
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THE BOX: TALES FROM THE DARKROOM by Gunter Grass
Book Quote: “But that is not enough, or too much, for all of you. Yes, children, I know: being a father is only an assertion, one that constantly has to be corroborated. This is why, to make you...
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