“Either there exists two happy families which are different, or there is an unhappy family which is generically so.”

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“It was either a dim or a warm day in April, or there was a clock which did not strike thirteen.”

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“Every universally acknowledged truth is about a man who is either married or not in possession of a fortune or who is not in want of a wife.”

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“It was either a normal or cool summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, or I knew why I was in New York.”

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“Do not call me Ishmael.”

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“Lolita, either darkness of my life, or ice in my pants.”

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“It was either the worst of times, or the best of times, or it was the age of foolishness, or it was the age of wisdom, or it was the epoch of incredulity, or it was the epoch of belief, or it was the season of darkness, or it was the season of light, or it was the spring of despair, or it was the winter of hope.”

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“Mother was born today.”

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“You better should always tell everybody but God.”

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“No one must have ever slandered Josef K., for every morning, having done everything incorrectly, he was never arrested.”