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"He was already halfway across the square when they saw him, on a big hard ridden roan horse, man and beast looking as though they had been created out of thin air and set down in the bright summer sabbath sunshine in the middle of a tired foxtrot-face and horse that none of them had ever seen before, name that none of them had ever heard, and origin and purpose which none of them were never to learn." ...and that's one of the shorter sentences!
William Faulkner Absalom; Absalom!
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"You have some, Papa"
The Road from Cormac McCarthy
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The Black Dahlia
I knew that losing to a taco bender would ruin my local celebrity.
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"Many a man, however vindictive, would have abandoned all thought of revenge in the face of such difficulty, but Jefferson Hope never faltered for a moment."
A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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"The problem was to find an economically sounder reason for consuming transport than a mere affection for primroses and landscapes."
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
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solo los libros pueden hacernos soportable y hasta dichosa una larga noche de invierno
(Only books can make bearable and even happy a long winter night)
J.W, Goethe Faust
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" He told us about the magic qualities every number has and how number unlock the secrets of the universe"
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
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'Mr Harding looked blank and annoyed; there was something in the tone of the young man's voice which told him that the interview was intended to be disagreeable, and he shrank back at finding his kindly greeting so repulsed.'
Anthony Trollope, The Warden, 1855
It is proving quite a delight :), I think I may start on Austen's last now... I have found a substitute :banana:
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Well I have two.
One in Spanish and One in American English.
''res os pido un poco de flexibilidad e imaginacion, virtu-''
Lucia Etxebarria, Ya No Sufro Por Amor
''strong as a bull''
John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
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"Now her mother was upstairs with the man who had gotten rid of the only other company she had."
Beloved by Toni Morrison
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He was happy to hear that Ruya was no longer wandering through the garden of her memories and was back in the real world with everyone else. - The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk
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"This, also," Luka added, and tore the note to bits under the vulture's cynical beak, "is the letter of a nasty man, trying to make out that he could make my father ill."-Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie
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The Odyssey
So said Athene, the daughter of Zeus.
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"How many times did you shoot?"
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
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"It reminded her of the Russian ballet that Madame Medinsky had taken her to at the Victoria Theater last year."
The Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall
