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Call me Ishmael.Herman Melville
Moby Dick
The fact that I spelled subpoena, suhpeena, may suggest I am not qualified to tell this story.Chanel Miller
Know My Name
I spent much of my childhood listening to the sound of striving.Michelle Obama
Becoming
Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes.George Orwell
Animal Farm
Mr. Jones, of Manor Farm, had locked the hen-house for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut down the popholes.George Orwell
Animal Farm
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty Four
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, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
It was love at first sight.J.D. Salinger
[Joseph Heller] Catch 22
A FEW MILES south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green.John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men
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We're gonna need a bigger boat.Robert Shaw
[Brody] Jaws

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