July 2012
17 posts
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“The father and the mother sat close together without touching.”
– Blake Butler, There is No Year
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“I’ve only had the opportunity to hold a hamster once,” said Dakota...”
– Tao Lin, Richard Yates
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“The reason Weetzie Bat hated high school was because no one understood.”
– Francesca Lia Block, Weetzie Bat
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“My name is Charles Highway, though you wouldn’t think it to look at me.”
– Martin Amis, The Rachel Papers
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“See the child.”
– Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian: Or the Evening of Redness in the West
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“The Swede.”
– Phillip Roth, American Pastoral
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“The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a...”
– Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
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“I’ve been called Bone all my life, but my name’s Ruth Anne.”
– Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina
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“I remember in no particular order:
—a shiny inner wrist;
...”
– Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending.
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“When describing my mother it is impossible to overstate her grandeur, her...”
– Sean Wilsey, Oh the Glory of It All
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“She waited, Kate Croy, for her father to come in, but he kept her...”
– Henry James, The Wings of the Dove
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“3 May. Bistritz — Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna...”
– Bram Stoker, Dracula
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“To start with, look at all the books.”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
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“For the rest of her life, Charlotte Cleve would blame herself for her...”
– Donna Tartt, The Little Friend
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“Madam, I sit down to give you an undeniable proof of my considering your desires...”
– John Cleland, Memoirs of Fanny Hill
April 2012
13 posts
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“One fine day in early summer, a young man lay thinking in Central Park.”
– Walker Percy, The Last Gentleman
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“The younger sister is bored in the shop and rings the bell.”
– Lydia Davis, Two Sisters (II)
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“It rained lightly on the morning of Wednesday, July 4, 1917, and the Festival...”
– John O’Hara, A Rage to Live 