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-----to every man his chance --to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining, golden opportunity --to every man the right to live, to work, to be himself, and to become whatever his manhood and his vision can combine to make him --this, seeker, is the promise of America. - [America] Every time the men's-room door opened, the amped-up onslaught of Swarm, the band banging out the concert in the theater overhead, came crashing in, ricocheting off all the mirrors and ceramic surfaces until it seemed twice as loud. - I Am Charlotte Simmons (prologue) [Books (First Lines)] A destiny that leads the English to the Dutch is strange enough; but one that leads from Epsom into Pennsylvania, and thence into the hills that shut in Altamont over the proud coral cry of the cock, and the soft stone smile of an angel, is touched by that dark miracle of chance which makes new magic in a dusty world. - Look Homeward, Angel [Books (First Lines)] Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind. - Look Homeward, Angel (pt. I, ch. 1) [Sickness] About fifteen years ago, at the end of the second decade of this century, four people were standing together on the platform of the railway station of a town in the hills of western Catawba. - Of Time and the River [Books (First Lines)]
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