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    the closest book i found, though it's on top of my comp. desk

    Greg took a deep breath and pushed with all his hands.

    this may seem odd, it is from R.L Stine Goosebumps "Say Cheese and die"..haha
    i really enjoyed those books, oh as when i was young

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    'Skip the <table> tag for the page layout.'

    CSS Manual was the closest book!

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    "The evocation settled the matter."

    Lolita~ Vladimir Nabokov

    Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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    "We may hope for a good deal or cruelty and unchastity"

    C.S. Lewis- The Screwtape Letters


    Seriously.
    I'm weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight,
    Waiting for a winter to be done.
    Why do I still see you in every mirrored window,
    In all that I could never overcome?

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    "Are you a Munchkin?" asked Dorothy.

    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
    L. Frank Baum
    Les Miserables,
    Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
    Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.

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    RAPE: A Love Story (Joyce Carol Oates)

    In the interior there was a smell of stagnant water, rodents, rotting wood.

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    Neat topic!

    From L'Uomo che sapeva contare by Malba Tahan

    L'Uomo Che Contava mostra un metodo originale per contare i cammelli di una grande carovana.
    Translation: The Man Who Counts demonstrates an original method for counting the camels from a big caravan.

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    the closest book to my hand was a dictionary...lol..let's see the goods



    "afforest: To convert (land) into forest.

    okay.....lol

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    The title seemed suggestive, and he was in the habit of reading something light on his train journey home.

    That Shadow of the Wind ~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

    Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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    Revelation can be more perilous than revolution.

    Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle - Vladimir Nabokov
    L'enfer, cest les autres

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    They differ, again, in their length: for Tragedy endeavors, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution of the sun, or but slightly to exceed this limit; whereas the Epic action has no limits of time.

    From Criticism: Major Statements 4th edition
    Aristotle, The Poetics.

    Boring literary criticism textbook! Lemme grab my fun read...

    The knife hung beside the dead man's empty leather gun holster, from which Havermeyer had stolen the gun.
    From Catch-22

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    A fiendish cloud of feathers and wings arose screaming, and Adela, like a furious maenad protected by the whirlwind of her thyrsus, danced the dance of destruction.

    The Street of Crocodiles, Bruno Schulz

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    "What do you have in your mouth young man?"

    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay ~ Michael Chabon

    Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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    "Ninety-nine point two."

    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
    “Never take a picture of a Sasquatch foot print without a scale!”
    Dr. Jeff Meldrum (From 2013 Texas Bigfoot Conference)

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    "There was no refusing, however inconvenient it might have seemed to fight a war with Meissen porcelain under one arm."

    Atonement - Ian McEwan
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