introduction

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ca927b6	My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York. Am I a troubled kid? Yeah. You could say that.	humor introduction percy-jackson trouble school	Rick Riordan
d35e22e	My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.	sherlock-holmes introduction	Arthur Conan Doyle
5c87271	Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along--the same person that I am today.	orson-scott-card personhood introduction	Orson Scott Card
66dd9ca	Call me Ishmael.	opening-lines introduction sobriquet	Herman Melville
fa3109e	Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me.	young-adult dark sarah-j-maas feyre beautiful-quote broken beginning introduction	Sarah J. Maas
0d0e953	So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilisation, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates a destiny that is divine, with human fatality; so long as the three problems of the age -- the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of woman by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night -- are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words, and from a yet more extended point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.	introduction preface	Victor Hugo
cc8c628	"The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" intro to first full American version 1986"	irony philosophical intro american introduction	Anthony Burgess
5c8d84b	It is the task of a lifetime. You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.	introduction	Anne Carson
2938c6f	Is truth something that in fact we do--and should--especially care about? Or is the love of truth, as professed by so many distinguished thinkers and writers, itself merely another example of ?	truth bullshit introduction	Harry G. Frankfurt
8664b2d	"[Karen Lundegaard] was quite frail, debilitated by metastatic breast cancer, which she had long known she had but for which she had been unable to get adequate treatment because she lacked medical insurance. ("If you mention anything about me," she said, "tell people that.")" --	inspiration intro medical-insurance cancer introduction insurance	Amy Tan
27cb9dc	But as we all know, rock 'n' roll will never die, and education too, as Henry Adams always sez, keeps going on forever.	life henry-adams slow-learner slow-learner-early-stories thomas-pynchon rock-and-roll introduction	Thomas Pynchon
0788f8e	Do you prefer Mitch? Or is Mitchell better?'.. .. Mitch, I say. Mitch is what my friends called me. 'Well, Mitch it is then,' Morrie says, as if closing a deal. 'And, Mitch?' Yes? 'I hope one day you will think of me as your friend.	hope nickname student professor introduction name	Mitch Albom

ca927b6

My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York. Am I a troubled kid? Yeah. You could say that.

humor introduction percy-jackson trouble school

Rick Riordan

d35e22e

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

sherlock-holmes introduction

Arthur Conan Doyle

5c87271

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along--the same person that I am today.

orson-scott-card personhood introduction

Orson Scott Card

66dd9ca

Call me Ishmael.

opening-lines introduction sobriquet

Herman Melville

fa3109e

Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me.

young-adult dark sarah-j-maas feyre beautiful-quote broken beginning introduction

Sarah J. Maas

0d0e953

So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilisation, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates a destiny that is divine, with human fatality; so long as the three problems of the age -- the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of woman by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night -- are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words, and from a yet more extended point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.

introduction preface

Victor Hugo

cc8c628

"The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" intro to first full American version 1986"

irony philosophical intro american introduction

Anthony Burgess

5c8d84b

It is the task of a lifetime. You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.

introduction

Anne Carson

2938c6f

Is truth something that in fact we do--and should--especially care about? Or is the love of truth, as professed by so many distinguished thinkers and writers, itself merely another example of ?

truth bullshit introduction

Harry G. Frankfurt

8664b2d

"[Karen Lundegaard] was quite frail, debilitated by metastatic breast cancer, which she had long known she had but for which she had been unable to get adequate treatment because she lacked medical insurance. ("If you mention anything about me," she said, "tell people that.")" --

inspiration intro medical-insurance cancer introduction insurance

Amy Tan

27cb9dc

But as we all know, rock 'n' roll will never die, and education too, as Henry Adams always sez, keeps going on forever.

life henry-adams slow-learner slow-learner-early-stories thomas-pynchon rock-and-roll introduction

Thomas Pynchon

0788f8e

Do you prefer Mitch? Or is Mitchell better?'.. .. Mitch, I say. Mitch is what my friends called me. 'Well, Mitch it is then,' Morrie says, as if closing a deal. 'And, Mitch?' Yes? 'I hope one day you will think of me as your friend.

hope nickname student professor introduction name

Mitch Albom