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The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

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The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King

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All this happened, more or less.

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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

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All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

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All children, except one, grow up.

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Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

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A screaming comes across the sky.

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Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

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Mother died today.

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The Stranger by Albert Camus

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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.

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling

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It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.

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Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

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In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.

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A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean

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You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter.

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

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I am an invisible man.

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Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

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I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.

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I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

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The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

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In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

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The Bible, Genesis

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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.

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Lord of the Flies by William Golding

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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

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1984 by George Orwell

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It was a dark and stormy night.

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Paul Clifford by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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Call me Ishmael.

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Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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It was a pleasure to burn.

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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

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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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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

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Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

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It was love at first sight.

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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

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The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

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The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley

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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

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When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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