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1. "My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born."
2. "They murdered him."
3. "To get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle."
4. "Why you looking at me for? I didn't come to stay..."
5. "Lieutentant Commander Peter Holmes of the Royal Australian Navy woke soon after dawn."
6. "The two girls were usually known by their surnames, Banford and March."
7. "On the pleasant shore of the French Riviera, about halfway between Marseilles and the Italian border, stands a large, proud, rose-colored hotel."
8. "When I was in the third grade I knew a boy who had to have fourteen shots in his stomach as the result of a squirrel bite."
9. "The writer, an old man with a white mustache, had some difficulty getting into bed."
10. "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."
11. "One winter morning in the long-ago, four-year-old days of my life, I found myself standing before a fireplace, warming my hands over a mound of glowing coals, listening to the wind whistle past the house outside."
12. "There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan-Am flight to Vienna, and I had been treated by at least six of them."
13. "(3 May. Bistritz.) Left Munich at 8:35 pm on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late."
14. "On January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying to be blown away."
15. "When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch."
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