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Not quite a sentence, but it's "Wool socks" ;)
The Worst Case Scenario Handbook: University
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Notice that the fallacy consists in arguing that if we allow one case of euthanasia to happen, you must allow it also to happen to other cases.
- Philosophical Analysis, Seventh Edition
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He wrote it at the table listening to the woman's stories about Tin Head, slowly emptying his glass until he was nine-times-nine drunk, his gangstery face loosening, the crushed rodeo nose and scar-crossed eyebrows, the stub ear dissolving as he drank.
Close Range by Annie Proulx
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"We followed the Indian down a sordid and common passage, ill-lit and worse furnished, until he came to a door upon the right, which he threw open."
- The Sign of Four
by Arthur Conan Doyle
(one of the many adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
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An usher guided her to a reserved seat in the front row, then vanished.
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"Those instruments that hang there mocking me"
Faust - von Goethe
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But I - I have lost everything and cannot begin life anew.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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"Soon she came to expect him, just after four o'clock, even in the rain, to which he seemed indifferent."
La's Orchestra...
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"His commentary, though not lacking in merit, must rank below those of his predecessors."
'The Art of War' by Sun Tzu
Not particularly enthralling.
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"Nonsense," Annabel laughed, slapping him on the thigh.
The Devil´s Graveyard - Bourbon Kid
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"But my mind is wandering".
Tom Wolfe - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
Not all that earth shattering as it turns out.
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"Sighing, her stomach twisted into knots, she followed him into that bar, which, in the style of Spanish taverns, lacked windows, its interior hazy with shifting plains of smoke."
Beautiful Maria of My Soul, Oscar Hijuelos (just picked it up today, thought I put a hold on Mambo Kings, right author, wrong novel).
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"Slight and highly strung, a golden Andalusian, as they call it, with black hair shining like satin, an eye that could flash lightning, and long dark lashes, with the distinction of a duchess in every movement that she made, with a poor girl's modesty and an unassuming grace, as sweet and pretty in her ways as a wild deer."
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Up you go, Mistress Carey and all of us go up with you.
The Other Boleyn Girl ~ Philippa Gregory
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Or, as Ambedkar put it with his ingenious wordplay: "There will be outcasts as long as there are castes." - LIVING IN THE END TIMES - Zizek
