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“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”

-Stephen King, The Gunslinger
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“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

-Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

-George Orwell, 1984
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“It was a pleasure to burn.”

-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”

-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
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“All this happened, more or less.”

-Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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“And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking at my heels to move on, with a phantom dogging its own heels, and myself hurrying to a plank where all the angels dove off and flew into the holy void of uncreated emptiness, the potent and inconceivable radiancies shining in bright Mind Essence, innumerable lotuslands falling open in the magic mothswarm of heaven.”

-Jack Kerouac, On The Road
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