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| The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely considered a bad move. | The Restaurant at the End of the Universe | Douglas Adams | 91%
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| To win back my youth, Gerald, there is nothing I wouldn't do - except take exercise, get up early, or be a useful member of the community. | A Woman of No Importance | Oscar Wilde | 64%
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| Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself. | Henry VIII | William Shakespeare | 64%
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| There is something about a Martini, A tingle remarkably pleasant; A yellow, a mellow Martini; I wish I had one at present. There is something about a Martini, Ere the dining and dancing begins, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth— I think that perhaps it's the gin. | “A Drink with Something in It” | Ogden Nash | 55%
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| so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens | “The Red Wheelbarrow” | William Carlos Williams | 45%
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| We’re going to tell you about three of the children in Mrs. Jewls’s class, on the thirtieth story of Wayside School. But before we get to them, there is something you ought to know. Wayside School was accidentally built sideways. It was supposed to be only one story high, with thirty classrooms all in a row. Instead, it is thirty stories high, with one classroom on each story. The builder said he was very sorry. | Sideways Stories from Wayside School | Louis Sachar | 27%
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| Paranoids are only paranoid because people keep telling them not to be paranoid. | Gravity's Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon | 27%
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| On the fifteenth of May in the year 1066, Lord Godiva, Earl of all Coventry, summoned his daughters to appear before him in the Great North Hall of the Castle Godiva. | The Seven Lady Godivas | Dr. Seuss | 9%
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| … The barnacles which encrust the side of the wave, cannot hide there for the submerged shafts of the sun, split like spun glass, move themselves with spotlight swiftness into the crevices— in and out, illuminating the turquoise sea of bodies. … | “The Fish” | Marianne Moore | 9%
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| I was a drunk, you have to be richer than I was to be an alcoholic. | The Fifth Elephant | Terry Pritchett | 9%
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