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  1. Paul Beatty _ The Sellout

    At the zoo, I stood in front of the primate cage listening to a woman marvel at how "presidential" the four-hundred-pound gorilla looked sitting astride a shorn oaken limb, keeping a watchful eye over his caged brood. When her boyfriend, his finger tapping the informational placard, pointed out the "presidential" silverback's name coincidentally was Baraka, the woman laughed aloud, until she saw me, the other four-hundred-pound gorilla in the room, stuffing something that might have been the last of a Big Stick Popsicle or a Chiquita banana in my mouth."
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  2. Alison Weir _ Henry VIII: The King and His

    News of the death of James V on 14 December gave even further cause for rejoicing, because his heir was a week-old girl, the infant Mary, Queen of Scots. Scotland would be subject to yet another weakening regency-it had endured six during the past 150 years-and should give no further trouble.
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  3. Nick Hornby _ A Long Way Down

    No one's stopping you," said Jess. "But you've got to make it more interesting. That's why why we drift off and talk about biscuits.
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  4. Nick Hornby _ About a Boy

    It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself
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  5. Nick Hornby _ High Fidelity

    Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There's the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-beginning problem; there's the size-doesn't-matter-except-in-my-case problem, the failing-to-deliver-the-goods problem…and what do women have to worry about? A handful of cellulite? Join the club. A spot of I-wonder-how-I-rank? Ditto.
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  6. Nick Hornby _ Fever Pitch

    I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it."
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  7. Robert Jordan _ Winter's Heart

    A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough.
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  8. Katie McGarry _ Dare You To

    Nothing makes you think you might need years of therapy like saying the word breasts in front of your mother.
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  9. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra _ Don Quixote

    I swear to hold my tongue about it till the end of your worship's days, and God grant I may be able to let it out tomorrow
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  10. Margaret Atwood _ Oryx and Crake

    We offered her flowers and signalled to her with our penises, but she did not respond with joy.''The men with the extra skins didn't look happy. They looked angry.''We went towards them to greet them, but they ran away.'Snowman can imagine. The sight of these preternaturally calm, well-muscled men advancing en masse, singing their unusual music, green eyes glowing, blue penises waving in unison, both hands outstretched like extras in a zombie film, would have to have been alarming.
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  11. Margaret Atwood _ MaddAddam

    I already told you," said Adam. "There is no need to swear.""Sorry, it just fucking slipped out," said Zeb.
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  12. Margaret Atwood _ The Edible Woman

    I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I'd get out of it myself if I could, though you've got to do it to stay alive, they tell me."
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