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If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested. - [Conservative : Liberal] For a while the freaking traffic inched up Piedmont . . . inched up Piedmont . . . inched up Piedmont . . . inched up as far as Tenth Street . . . and then inched up the slope beyond Tenth Street . . . inched up as far as Fifteenth Street . . . whereupon it came to a complete, utter, hopeless, bogged-down glue-trap halt, both ways, northbound, southbound, going and coming, across all four lanes. - A Man in Full (ch . 1) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK Charlie Crocker, astride his favorite Tennessee walking horse pulled his shoulders back to make sure he was erect in the saddle and took a deep breath . . . Ahhhh, that was the ticket . . . He loved the way his mighty chest rose and fell beneath his khaki shirt and imagined that everyone in the hunting party noticed how powerfully built he was. - A Man in Full (prologue) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK At that very moment, in the very sort of Park Avenue co-op apartment that so obsessed the Mayor . . . twelve-foot ceilings . . . two wings, one for the white Anglo-Saxon Protestants who own the place and one for the help . . . Sherman McCoy was kneeling in his front hall trying to put a leash on a dachshund. - The Bonfire of the Vanities (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK "And then say what? Say, 'Forget you're hungry, forget you got shot inna back by some racist cop--Chuck was here? Chuck come up to Harlem--'" - The Bonfire of the Vanities (prologue) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK In military flight training] the idea here seemed to be that a man should have the ability to go up in a hurtling piece of machinery and put his hide on the line and then have the moxie, the reflexes, the experience, the coolness, to pull it back in the last yawning moment--and then go up again the next day, and the next day, and every next day, even if the series should prove infinite--and, ultimately, in its best expression, do so in a cause that means something to thousands, to a people, a nation, to humanity, to God. - The Right Stuff [Explorers]
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