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Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. - [Experience] Maybe this world is another planet's hell. - [Hell] It had all been arranged by telegram, Jeremy Pordage was to look out for a coloured chauffeur in a grey uniform with a carnation in his button-hole; and the coloured chauffeur was to look out for a middle-aged Englishman carrying the Poetical Works of Wordsworth. In spite of the crowds at the station, they found one another without difficulty. - After Many a Summer, later editions titled as After Many a Summer Dies the Swan [Books (First Lines)] A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY. - Brave New World [Books (First Lines)] Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trains--the few that there were--stopped at all the stations. Denis knew the names of those stations by heart. Bole, Tritton, Spavin Delawarr, Knipswich for Timpany, West Bowlby, and, finally, Camlet-on-the-Water. - Crome Yellow [Books (First Lines)] The proper study of mankind is books. - Crome Yellow (ch. 28) [Mankind] The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories. - Eyeless in Gaza [Books (First Lines)] "You won't be late?" There was anxiety in Marjorie Carling's voice, there was something like entreaty. - Point Counter Point [Books (First Lines)] Several excuses are always less convincing than one. - Point Counter Point (ch. 1) [Excuses]
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