Primeiras linhas (VII)

"It was about eleven o’clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark blue clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn’t care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars"

Primeiras linhas (VI)

"All this happened, more or less"

Primeiras linhas (V)

"I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had duly considered how much depended upon what they were then doing;—that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind; — and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions that were then uppermost; — Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,— I am verily persuaded that I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that in which the reader is likely to see me"

Primeiras linhas (IV)

"The sun shone, having no alternative, 
on the nothing new"

Primeiras linhas (II)

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth"

Primeiras linhas (I)

"Uma grande foda, disse o avô, não é para todos"