If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it.
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This is how it feels to die: It starts from outside and works its way in.
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Goldenrod Moram had a first name that sounded like it belonged in the middle of a fairy tale, where she would be the dazzling princess in need of rescuing.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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All this happened, more or less.
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Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways.
I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
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We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
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There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus.
I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.
The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.
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Happy endings aren't for cowards.
Call me Ishmael.
A screaming comes across the sky.
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.
In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.
Marley was dead: to begin with.
My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
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I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.
There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.
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