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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.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” – Genesis 1:1, The Bible
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” – Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
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“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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“Call me Ishmael.” – Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
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“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” – George Orwell, 1984
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“It was a pleasure to burn.” – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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“It was the day my grandmother exploded.” – Iain Banks, The Crow Road
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“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” – William Gibson, Neuromancer
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“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets.” – Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford
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“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” – Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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“It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.” – Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers LOVE IS LIKE A BALLOON QUOTES
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“The sky was a tortured grey, the color of anguish.” – Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
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“It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” – George Orwell, 1984
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“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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“In my younger and happier years, my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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“A screaming comes across the sky.” – Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
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“Here is a small fact – you are going to die.” – Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” – Stephen King, The Gunslinger
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“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” – L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between
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“I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.” – Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.” – Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary