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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Roseto Valfortore lies one hundred miles southeast of Rome in the Apennine foothills of the Italian province of Foggia.Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers
The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon.William Golding
Lord of the Flies
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.John Green
The Fault In Our Stars
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest, in the shade of the fig tree is where Siddhartha grew up, the handsome son of the Brahman, the young falcon, together with his friend Govinda, son of a Brahman.Herman Hesse
Siddhartha
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.James Joyce
Ulysses(1922)
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.Franz Kafka
Metamorphosis
Jack Torrance though: Officious little prick.Stephen King
The Shining
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
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We're gonna need a bigger boat.Robert Shaw
[Brody] Jaws

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