285 Quotes About First-lines

He liked radical politics and had a fondness for chocolate.

-Laura Kinsale

What a lark! What a plunge!

-Virginia Woolf

  • Author Larry McMurtry
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    WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over.

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WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over.

-Larry McMurtry

Sure. Sure you have. I never forget a face.

-Stephen King

Sometimes the day begins with nothing to look forward to...

-Shaun Tan

  • Author Muriel Spark
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    It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up.

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It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up.

-Muriel Spark

So I'm on my way to work and I stop to watch a pigeon fight a rat in the snow, and some fuckhead tries to mug me!

-Josh Bazell

Entertainment has a bad name...The word wears spandex, pasties, a leisure suit studded with blinking lights.

-Michael Chabon

  • Author Hal Duncan
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    A burning map. Every epic, my friend Jack used to say, should start with a burning map. Like in the movies. Fucking flames burning the world away; that's the best thing about all those old films, he said -- when you see this old parchment map just ... getting darker and darker in the centre, crisping, crinkling until suddenly it just ... fwoom.

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A burning map. Every epic, my friend Jack used to say, should start with a burning map. Like in the movies. Fucking flames burning the world away; that's the best thing about all those old films, he said -- when you see this old parchment map just ... getting darker and darker in the centre, crisping, crinkling until suddenly it just ... fwoom.

-Hal Duncan

 

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