It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
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I died on a bitter cold night. Beneath a black sky and a bruised winter moon, I tried to fly, hoping my arms might act as wings.
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Mr. And Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.
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I am a vampire, and that is the truth.
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My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.
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Who is John Galt?
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Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won
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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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What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?
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This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem strange to start a story with and ending, but all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
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That year the Ribeiro's daffodils seeded early and they seeded cockroaches. Now, ecologically speaking, even a cockroach has its place -- but these suckers bit. That didn't sound Earth-authentic to me. Not that I care, mind you, all I ask is useful. I wasn't betting on that either.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
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There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus.
Call me Ishmael.
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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There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.
It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.
Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.
The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.
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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. It was the future, and everything sucked.
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There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.
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The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.
Indian summer is like a woman.
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This morning, my mother didn't get out of bed.
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