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“In a time of dangerously increasing division, we must listen. Good writing and good reading will break down barriers. We may even find a new idea, a great humane vision, around which to rally.” 

—Kaguro Ishiguro, author of “Remains of the Day” and other novels, in his Nobel acceptance speech, “My Twentieth Century Evening – and Other Small Breakthroughs,” NobelPrize.org, Dec. 7, 2017.

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“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.” —Tom Stoppard