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Added Jun 23, 2015
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- "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
Added Jun 23, 2015
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- "it was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
The War That Ended PeaceThe War That Ended Peace, BookThe Road to 1914
by MacMillan, MargaretBook - 2013Book, 2013
Added Jun 23, 2015
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- "Louvain was a dull place, said a guidebook in 1910, but when the time came it made a spectacular fire."
ImagineImagine, Audiobook CDHow Creativity Works
by Lehrer, JonahAudiobook CD - 2012Audiobook CD, 2012
Added Jun 23, 2015
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- “Bob Dylan looks bored.”
The Wealthy Barber ReturnsThe Wealthy Barber Returns, BookSignificantly Older and Marginally Wiser, Dave Chilton Offers His Unique Perspectives on the World of Money
by Chilton, David BarrBook - 2011Book, 2011
Added Jun 23, 2015
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- "I hate to start with a dose of harsh reality, but here goes."
The 39 StepsThe 39 Steps, Audiobook on MP3 CD
by Buchan, JohnAudiobook on MP3 CD - 2010Audiobook on MP3 CD, 2010
Added Jun 23, 2015
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- "I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life."
Added Jun 23, 2015
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- "Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while."
Added Jun 23, 2015
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- "The sweat wis lashing oafay Sick Boy; he wis trembling."
Added Jun 23, 2015
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- "People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day."
Added Jun 23, 2015
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- "Granted: I AM an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peep-hole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me."
UlyssesUlysses, Audiobook on MP3 CD
by Joyce, JamesAudiobook on MP3 CD - 2010Audiobook on MP3 CD, 2010
Added Jun 23, 2015
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- "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and razor lay crossed."
Added Jun 23, 2015
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- "Where now? Who now? When now?" - first line, Unnamable.
Added Jun 23, 2015
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- "Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu."
The Wind-up Bird ChronicleThe Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Downloadable Audiobook
by Murakami, HarukiDownloadable Audiobook - 2006Downloadable Audiobook, 2006
Added Jun 23, 2015
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- When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's The Thieving Magpie, which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta.
Added Jun 18, 2015
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- "Most people think cows can't think."
- Now personally, I think it's a little weird to drink another animal's milk. You don't see me walking up to some human lady who just gave birth, saying, "Yo, can I get a taste?" -Elsie the Cow
Added Jun 18, 2015
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- "Jane salutes you from an age where to be an afficionado is to find yourself foolishly situated in the world."
Vernon God LittleVernon God Little, BookA 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death
by Pierre, D. B. C.Book - 2003Book, 2003
Added Jun 16, 2015
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- "It's hot as hell in Martirio, but the papers on the porch are icy with the news."
Added Jun 16, 2015
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- "Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living."
Added Jun 16, 2015
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- " 'Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass."
Added Jun 16, 2015
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- "Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure."
The Stupidest AngelThe Stupidest Angel, eBookA Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
by Moore, ChristophereBook - 2004eBook, 2004
Added Jun 16, 2015
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- "Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe."
Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's CrusadeSlaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade, BookA Duty-dance With Death
by Vonnegut, KurtBook - 1969Book, 1969
Added Jun 16, 2015
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- "All this happened, more or less."
ScaramoucheScaramouche, BookA Romance of the French Revolution
by Sabatini, RafaelBook - 2002Book, 2002
Added Jun 16, 2015
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- "He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad."
Added Jun 16, 2015
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- "'To be born again,' sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'first you have to die.'"
The Princess BrideThe Princess Bride, Downloadable Audiobook
by Goldman, WilliamDownloadable Audiobook - 2006Downloadable Audiobook, 2006
Added Jun 16, 2015
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- "The year that Buttercup was born, the most beautiful woman in the world was a French scullery maid named Annette."