Here’s the ones still standing:
LN5 - It is sad enough at any time for a man to be compelled to confess himself a failure, but I think it will be admitted that it is doubly so at that period of his career when he is still young enough to have some flickering sparks of ambition left, while he is old enough to be able to appreciate at their proper value the overwhelming odds against which he has been battling so long and unsuccessfully.
Sh1 - Renowned [profession] [name] [died in a mysterious and symbolic manner]
Sh2 - Originally Posted by whom?
Two tires fly. Two wail.
A bamboo grove, all chopped down
From it, warring songs.
CCL13. The river was silky in the late sun. On the shore the light pierced the live-oaks with golden spikes, and the wind in the long gray moss made a soft undertone to the shouts of the boatmen.
CCL14. Dock’s shoes on the rocks up the hill and his heavy breathing had shut out all sound so it seemed a long while that she had heard nothing, and Amos lay too still, not clawing at the blanket as when they had started.
CCL15. “Oh what a life, what worthless, lousy, dirty life,” one of them cursed beneath his breath, staring at the tick that was sucking the life from hoary grey ear of the donkey that pulled the cart.
JN1 - My mother was the village whore and I loved her very much.
Z7: Before she went to the launch site, Helena Lyakhov always went through the same ritual.
MB1 - Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances.
MPK 2: [Character name], who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasion when he stayed up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.
FP4: 1801 – I have just returned from a visit to my landlord – the solitary neighbor that I shall be troubled with.
FP5: The Herdmans were absolutely the worst kids in the history of the world.
FP6: The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.
F2: One night after dinner when David was reading Doctor Dolittle in the Moon and his father was reading the newspaper, and his mother was darning socks, his father suddenly exclaimed; “Well, now, that’s very odd!”
PM1 - “When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding
like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere”
PM2 - " riverrun, past Eve and Adams, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth, Castle and Environs."
PM3 - “Hughs got it wrong in one important detail.”
PM4 - “Mr [name] lived in 1872 at No 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814.”
H2: A Saturday afternoon in November WAS approaching THE time of twilight, and THE vast tract of unenclosed wild known as EGDON heath embrowned itself moment by moment.
Ril2: Right now I’m supposed to be all geeked up because I’m getting ready for a New Year’s Eve party that some guy named Lionel invited me to. Sheila, my baby sister, insisted on giving me his phone number because he lives here in Denver and her simple-ass husband played basketball with him eleven years ago at the University of Washington, and since I’m still single (which is downright pitiful to her, considering I’m the oldest of four kids and the only one who has yet to say “I do”), she’s worried about me.
Ril3: Once on a dark winter’s day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the thoroughfares.
Mm1 - A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.
And two guesses:
PM2 - Ulysses - James Joyce
PM3 - Flashman - George MacDonald Fraser