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etesien,
Pehlivanî,
Occam's Toilet Brush,
Eivind,
Adriano,
Melly #FForever,
Valentina*,
Dana Del Rey,
klemo,
Catherin martinemily,
SubliminalPop,
Soup in a TARDIS,
and
Federico
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"A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead." — Graham Greene, The End of the Affair (1951)
- Amira
"The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new." — Samuel Beckett, Murphy (1938)
- Amira
"Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo." — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
- Amira
"The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting." — Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
- Amira
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." — L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between (1953)
- Amira
I love that opening line of Murphy :)
- Eivind