“Ishmael, call me.”

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“Today, died mother.”

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“The times: best of they were, worst of they were.”

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“Nobody but God, never tell, you better not.”

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“True this is universally: good fortune has a single man, wife must he want.”

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“Of my life, light; of my loins, fire, Lolita she was.”

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“See them hitting, between the curling flower spaces, through the fence I could.”

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“Me you know not, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer without have read, ain’t no matter — luminous beings are we!”

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“In a house we lived — to the mountains, across the river and the plain looked a village that year in late summer.”

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“Facing the firing squad many years later, ice he remembered, how Colonel Aureliano Buendia’s father took him, to discover they did.”

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“Born twice was I: In Detroit remarkably smogless it was in January 1960 as baby girl born first was I; Near Petoskey, Michigan in an emergency room in August of 1974 born then again as a teenage boy was I.”

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“Riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.”