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| “O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.” | “O Captain! My Captain!” | Walt Whitman | 86%
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| “I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent’s tongue—my woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my poet’s voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.” | Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza | Gloria Anzaldúa | 79%
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| “Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman’s power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.” | Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea | Ursula K. Le Guin | 71%
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| "There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there." | American Psycho | Bret Easton Ellis | 64%
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| “She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.” | Stardust | Neil Gaiman | 50%
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| “Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You’re in with the former, but my God I don’t envy the blood on your conscience.” | L.A. Confidential | James Ellroy | 43%
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| “Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.” | The Price of Salt | Patricia Highsmith | 43%
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| “I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, When Spring comes back with rustling shade And apple-blossoms fill the air— I have a rendezvous with Death When Spring brings back blue days and fair.” | “I Have a Rendezvous with Death” | Alan Seeger | 36%
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| "Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing." | The Good Soldier | Ford Madox Ford | 29%
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| "I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine." | Birdsong | Sebastian Faulks | 14%
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