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For years I've had nightmares.

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Raye reminiscenced as he watched the ball ricochet off the basket and hesitate to go in.

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I was travelling post from Tiflis.

A Hero Of Our Times, Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov
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I don't usually memorise first sentences. I find that boring. :roll:
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Jacktone Ogada wrote: 22 Apr 2020, 02:59 I don't usually memorise first sentences. I find that boring. :roll:
I just read, get the message and enjoy the book. However, ask me anything from the book and I'll tell it all.
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Most of the book beginnings here look very luring.
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In order to allow for new growth, the old must often be felled, burned away to the ashes.
This is as true of forests as it is the constructs of men.
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Jacktone Ogada wrote: 22 Apr 2020, 03:06 In order to allow for new growth, the old must often be felled, burned away to the ashes.
This is as true of forests as it is the constructs of men.
Had to copy paste mine.
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Andreas Marset didn't know why he had been called before the Iberian Imperium, but he did know he was expendable.

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The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend.

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In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
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"When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun. "

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Liz Alice wrote: 22 Apr 2020, 22:52 "When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun. "

Great book with a wonderful opening sentence

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The cemetery was located in Chelsea, a blue-collar suburb north of Boston. The entrance consisted of a dirt road on a hilltop leading to
a tree-lined meadow.

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