All through that winter and into the spring, when our Tuesday and Thursday-night dinner shifts were done, Matt and I would sit at the long table near the salad bar and plan his end-of-the-year party, our voices echoing importantly in the cavernous wood-panelled dining hall.

Tom Perrotta

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Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?

Bertrand Russell

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On the first day of Human Sexuality, Ruth Ramsey wore a short lime green skirt, a clingy black top, and strappy high-heeled sandals, the kind of attention-getting outfit she normally wouldn't have worn on a date---not that she was going on a lot of dates these days---let alone to work.

Tom Perrotta

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The sun appears in one of the upper corners of the rectangle, on the left of anyone looking at the picture.

José Saramago

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In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rocks, where she has left her boots and has discreetly pulled off her stockings, to the waterline along which the sea continually licks the pink and silver sand, she learns about desire.

Anita Shreve

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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

Shirley Jackson

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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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Too many!' James shouted, and slammed the door behind him.

Susan Cooper

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When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.

James Crumley

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Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him.

Robert Bloch

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