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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. It was the future, and everything sucked.


Greg Nagan


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Her first name was India-she was never able to get used to it.


Evan S. Connell


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What else exhausts like sustained deception?


Leif Enger


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Indian summer is like a woman.


Grace Metalious


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I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.


Jeffrey Eugenides


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The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.


Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez


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His first memory is an execution.


Blaine Harden


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Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head.


Carl Hiaasen


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I am damned,' thinks Bunny Munro in a sudden moment of self-awareness reserved for those who are soon to die.


Nick Cave


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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.


Adam Rapp


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