| Passage | Novel | Author |
| 'Except for the Marabar Caves - and they are twenty miles off - the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary.' | |
| 'The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel.'* | |
| 'Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes.' | |
| 'What does it mean to truly love another?'* | |
| 'Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway.' | |
| ' ' The Bottoms' succeeded to 'Hell Row.' '' | |
| ' 'What's your first memory?' Someone would ask.' | |
| 'Billy Ray Cobb was the younger and smaller of the two rednecks.' | |
| | Passage | Novel | Author |
| 'A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green.' | |
| 'The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.' | |
| 'umber whunnnn / yerrrnnn umber whunnnn fayunnnn/ These sounds: even in the haze.'* | |
| 'The unusual events described in this chronicle occurred in 194-, at Oran.' | |
| 'Left Munich at 8.35 p.m. on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6.46, but train was an hour late.' | |
| 'Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton.' | |
| 'My name is Karim Amir, and I am an Englishman born and bred, almost.' | |
| 'Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case.' | |
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