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It was the longest drive I have ever been on.
Thoughtless, S.C. Stephens
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I love Capote - I now believe him to be the best American writer of the 20th C.
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Bennay wrote: 06 Jan 2010, 21:04 The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there".

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
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I was sitting in my office above the bank with my tie loose and my feet up, reading a book called Play of Double Senses: Spenser's Faerie Queen.

Robert B. Parker
Savage Place - A Spenser Novel

I enjoy how a simple detective mystery can make me interested in literary criticism!
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It was just after midnight and Rabat felt largely deserted.

Enemy of the State by Vince Flynn/ Kyle Mills
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It's hard to imagine what my parents were thinking when they named me Shakespeare,
Spanking Shakespeare by Jake Wizner.
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Icy fingers of dread grip my heart as I step into the shadowy room.

Blood Moon's Fury by Leah Kingsley
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I dream of the meadows, green-gold 'neath the sun, sweet with the dew of the morn...
- Return of the Guardian King, Karen Hancock
(4th Book in the Legends of the Guardian King Series)
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UItima came to stay with us the summer I was almost seven.

Bless me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
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"The days were getting shorter, so the light in the sky had started to fall away when the gate to our temporary home swung open and our motorcade edged beyond the fencing that surrounded the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C."

Promise me, Dad / Joe Biden
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At the hour of the hot spring sunset two citizens appeared at the Patriarch's Ponds.

The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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“I have this recurring dream: I’m a little girl, sitting with my mom and she’s singing to me.”
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Sir Francis Walsingham peered across the great hall of Grey's Inn.

The Queen's Man by Rory Clements
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"My father trusted me with the details of his death."
The Storyteller - Jodi Picoult
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"A writer must follow his books, his readers, his words."

Andalusian in Jerusalem
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"Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who traveled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy."
- The Odyessey, By: Homer
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