There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus.

Joshilyn Jackson

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He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

Rafael Sabatini

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

George Orwell

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There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

C.S. Lewis

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

Leo Tolstoy

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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

Franz Kafka

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Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

Daphne du Maurier

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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.

J.D. Salinger

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At school I was careful not to look like I watched everything, but I did.

Amanda Davis

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When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.

Katherine Dunn

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