Post The Last Line Of Your Favorite Prose

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[+3] - panzade - 08/25/2013[quote]Then all found peace in a heap of livid dust.[/quote] [img]http://ourpreciousneighbours.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/leopard.jpg[/img]

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Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come.

any guesses?

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All Quiet on the Western Front

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"A Cock and a Bull, said Yorick — And one of the best of its kind, I ever heard."

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"A cup of tea?" asked Wendy in the silence.

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Every year he repairs to a large family merry-making at Mr. Wardle’s; on this, as on all other occasions, he is invariably attended by the faithful Sam, between whom and his master there exists a steady and reciprocal attachment which nothing but death will terminate.

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@edgarblythe,

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All Quiet on the Western Front

You're to smart for your own good

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@panzade,

I noticed Tristam Shandy up there, too.

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@Debacle,

I'm guessing it's the origin of a cock and bull story; the phrase

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@contrex,

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Every year he repairs to a large family merry-making at Mr. Wardle’s;

Don't know it but guessing Dickens

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(This is one of many)....

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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

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@Miller,

Great Gatsby

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The door sprang open
And the cops rushed in.

(A bit of a cheat, it's not prose)

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@izzythepush,

I meant to include books poems and songs

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This one should be easy for many of you. But I have to pick an arbitrary point to start.

he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.

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@edgarblythe,

Lady Chatterly's Lover? Lawrence had a peculiar style...I snuck it out of my folks' bookshelf at the age of 12...and I was smitten to say the least.

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@panzade,

Sorry, panz. Not Lady C.

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@edgarblythe,

Is it Ulysses?

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@izzythepush,

Yes. Ulysses.

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@edgarblythe,

Nobody's got mine yet. Here's a clue, it starts like this.
Queenie was a blonde, and her age stood still,
And she danced twice a day in vaudeville.

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