August 2012
25 posts
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“The last time I glanced at the library books on the kitchen shelf they were more...”
– Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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“The citadel was dark, and the heroes were sleeping.”
– Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
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“Of my grandfather Verus I have learned to be gentle and meek, and to refrain...”
– Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
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“Henry the Eighth, the unconquered King of England, a prince adorned with all the...”
– Sir Thomas Moore, Utopia
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“‘Curious affair, isn’t it?’”
– William Le Queux, The Place of Dragons
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“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather...”
– James Joyce, Ulysses
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“Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov was the third son of a landowner from our district,...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a...”
– Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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“Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.”
– George Elliot, Daniel Deronda
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“The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Portrait of Dorian Grey
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“They called him Moishe the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a...”
– Elie Wiesel (with Marion Wiesel), Night
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“The date was April 14, 1912, a sinister day in maritime history, but of course...”
– Erik Larson, Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America.
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“Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, sued jacket, sneakers...”
– Thomas Pynchon, V.
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“It was only later that he realized the reason they had called him, but by then...”
– Brian Evenson, Last Days, “Brotherhood of Mutilation”
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“The first time that Jean-Claude Pelletier read Benno von Archimboldi was...”
– Roberto Bolano, 2666
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“All children, except one, grow up.”
– J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan, “Peter and Wendy”
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“The sweat wis lashing oafay Sick Boy; he wis trembling.”
– Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting
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“At that very moment, in the very sort of Park Avenue co-op apartment that so...”
– Tom Wolfe, Bonfire of the Vanities
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“I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting...”
– William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
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“In watermelon sugar the deeds were done and done as my life is done in...”
– Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar
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“and it’s a story that might bore you but you don’t have to listen,...”
– Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction
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“A salesman who shared his liquor and steered while sleeping….A Cherokee...”
– Dennis Johnson, Jesus’ Son, “Car Crash While Hitchhiking” 