1.
"Call me Ishmael."
From Moby-Dick
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2.
All children, except one, grow up.
- The Adventures of Peter Pan
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3.
"All this happened, more or less."
- Slaughterhouse-Five
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4.
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
- Anna Karenina
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5.
"It was a pleasure to burn."
- Fahrenheit 451
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6.
"You better not never tell nobody but God."
from The Color Purple.
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7.
" In the town, there were two mutes and they were always together."
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
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8.
"It was love at first sight."
- Catch-22
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9.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
- A Tale of Two Cities
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10.
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
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11.
"I am an invisible man."
- Invisible Man
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12.
"Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
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13.
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
- Pride and Prejudice
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14.
"Not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine."
- Cujo
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15.
"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."
- The Great Gatsby
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16.
"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."
- David Copperfield
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17.
"You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter."
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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18.
"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf stream and he had gone 84 days now without taking a fish."
- The Old Man and the Sea
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19.
"Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting."
- The Sound and the Fury
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20.
"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.."
- The Catcher in the Rye
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