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“The point is,” said Anna, as her friend came back from the telephone on the landing, “the point is, that as far as I can see, everything’s cracking up.”
-The Golden Notebook (1962) D. Lessing
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When I saw Finn waiting for me at the corner of the street I knew at once that something had gone wrong.
-Under the Net (1954), I. Murdoch
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The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occured in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.
- Cold Comfort Farm, (1932)Stella Gibbons
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I was born in the city of Bombay ….. once upon a time.
- Midnight’s Children (1980), S. Rushdie
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It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears’ house. Its eyes were closed.
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (2003), Mark Haddon
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