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| “The time has come, the Walrus said, To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— Of cabbages—and kings— And why the sea is boiling hot— And whether pigs have wings.” | “The Walrus and the Carpenter” from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There | Lewis Carrol | 90%
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| “Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!” he said. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.” | “The Charge of the Light Brigade” | Alfred Tennyson | 82%
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| “It was a pleasure to burn.” | Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | 82%
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| “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” | Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | 74%
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| “People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles. This is the first thing I hear when I come back to the city.” | Less Than Zero | Bret Easton Ellis | 64%
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| “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!” | “Ozymandias” | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 62%
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| “The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.” | Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | 38%
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| “Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests. I’ll dig with it.” | “Digging” | Seamus Heaney | 28%
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| “‘Yes,’ I said. ‘Isn’t it pretty to think so?’” | The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | 21%
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| “We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties.” | “We Wear the Mask” | Paul Laurence Dunbar | 13%
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