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"Conventions, like cliches, have a way of surviving their own usefulness."
--Desert of the Heart, Jane Rule
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"Where's Papa going with that axe?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.
--Charlotte's Web, E.B. White
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"What's it going to be then, eh?"
--A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
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"For a long time, I went to bed early."
--Swann's Way, Marcel Proust
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The sweat wis lashing oafay Sick Boy; he wis trembling.
--Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh (1993)
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"Nick Naylor had been called many things since becoming the chief spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies, but until now no one had actually compared him to Satan."
--Thank You for Smoking: A Novel, Christopher Buckley
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"Here is a weird one for you."
--David Foster Wallace, Signifying Nothing
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"The great gray beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive."
The Thief of Always, Clive Barker
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"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."
--The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
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"All children, except one, grow up."
--Peter Pan, JM Barrie
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"If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book."
--A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket
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"But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction."
--A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolfe
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"The beginning is simple to mark."
--Enduring Love, Ian McEwan
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"It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful."
--Matilda, Roald Dahl
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"Once upon a time..."
--Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
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"The first time I read the ad, I choked and cursed and spat and threw the paper to the floor."
Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
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"This time there would be no witnesses."
--Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams
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"When Mr Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventyifirst birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton."
--The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkein
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