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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair."
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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
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Charles Dickens - It was the best of times, it was the worst of times....
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"Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying the first step to eternal life is you have to die."
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"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins."
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It was a pleasure to burn.
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"Mother died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know."
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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
Whenev...
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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. [show less] |
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The night Max wore his wolf suit...
a long-time favourite of mine... maybe not a "novel" in the traditional sense, but one of t...
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The night Max wore his wolf suit...
a long-time favourite of mine... maybe not a "novel" in the traditional sense, but one of the opening lines that has stuck with me through the years. [show less] |
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Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
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It was a bright, defrosted, pussy-willow day at the onset of spring, and the newlyweds were driving cross country in a large roast turkey.
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I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighbourhoods.
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from the novel-in-progress that Snoopy is always working on.
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_was_a_dark_an d_stormy_n...
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"Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream."
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"The voice on the telephone seemed to be sharp and peremptory, but I didn't hear too well what it said - partly because I only hal...
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"The voice on the telephone seemed to be sharp and peremptory, but I didn't hear too well what it said - partly because I only half awake and partly because I was holding the receiver upside down." [show less] |
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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
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at suicide - it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese - the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly whe...
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at suicide - it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese - the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope.
from The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
image: The Coward Suicide by Anja Niemi [show less] |
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and the Gunslinger followed.
from "The Gunslinger" Book 1 in The Dark Tower series by Stephen King.
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Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his w...
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Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster.
This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the telling; and although there is plenty of space on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, unabridged version of a man's life, detail is always welcome. [show less] |
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had reason enough to in the last few months--but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this. TWILIGHT!!!
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to say that they were perfectly normal thank you very much.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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The Long Day Wanes, Anthony Burgess
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