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Squire Trelawney, Dr Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17-, and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn, and the brown old seaman, with the sabre cut, first took up his lodging under our roof.Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.Hunter S Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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.Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
You better not never tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy.Alice Walker
The Color Purple
But, you may say we asked you to speak about women and fiction-what, has that got to do with a room of one’s own?Virginia Woolf
A Room of One’s Own
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We're gonna need a bigger boat.Robert Shaw
[Brody] Jaws

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