When my nose finally stops bleeding and I've disposed of the bloody paper towels, Teddy Barnes insists on driving me home in his ancient Honda Civic, a car that refuses to die and that Teddy, cheap as he is, refuses to trade in.

Richard Russo

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The Rue du Coq d'Or, Paris, seven in the morning.

George Orwell

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Quite like old times,' the room says.

Jean Rhys

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I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.

Mario Vargas Llosa

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Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.

Margaret Atwood

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Charles Dickens

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A screaming comes across the sky.

Thomas Pynchon

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Sometimes when you work in advertising you'll get a product that's really garbage and you have to make it seem fantastic, something that is essential to the continued quality of life.

Augusten Burroughs

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Amy called the whale punkin.

Christopher Moore

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Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe.

Christopher Moore

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