W. Somerset Maugham. The Moon and Sixpence

First: I confess that when first I made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I never for a moment discerned that there was in him anything out of the ordinary.

Last:He remembered the days when you could get thirteen Royal Natives for a shilling.

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Henry Miller. Tropic of Capricorn

First: 0nce you have given up the ghost, everything
follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of
chaos.

Last: Tomorrow, tomorrow...

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Douglas Adams. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

First: Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

Last: The other kids at school nicknamed him Ix, which in the language of Betelgeuse Five translates as "boy who is not able satisfactorily to explain what a Hrung is, nor why it should choose to collapse on Betelgeuse Seven".

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Fyodor Dostoevsky. Crime and Punishment

First: On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.

Last: That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.

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Theodore Dreiser. The Financier

First: The Philadelphia into which Frank Algernon Cowperwood was born was a city of two hundred and fifty thousand and more.

Last: What wise man might not read from such a beginning, such an end?

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Alan Alexander Milne. Winnie the Pooh

First: Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.

Last: He nodded and went out... and in a moment I heard Winnie-the-Pooh—bump, bump, bump—going up the stairs behind him.

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