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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)] It was the day of Gandhi's assassination; but on Calvary the sightseers were more interested in the contents of their picnic baskets than in the possible significance of the, after all, rather commonplace event they had turned out to witness. In spite of all the astronomers can say, Ptolemy was perfectly right: the center of the universe is here, not there. - Ape and Essence [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)] "Attention," a voice began to call, and it was as though an oboe had suddenly become articulate. "Attention," repeated in the same high, nasal monotone. "Attention." - Island [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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