285 Quotes About First-lines

  • Author Boris Vian
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    Nobody knew me at Buckton. Clem had chosen the town because of that; and besides, even if I had wimp out, there was not enough gas to help me going further north. - I spit on your graves ,

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  • Author Ayad Akhtar
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    My father first meet Donald Trump in the early ‘90s, when they were both in their midforties—my father the elder by a year—and as each was coming out from under virtual financial ruin.

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  • Author Junot Díaz
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    They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare dog that was cracked open in the Antilles.

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  • Author Brit Bennett
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    The morning one of the twins returned to Mallard, Lou LeBon ran to the diner to break the news, and even now, many years later, everyone remembers the shock of sweaty Lou pushing through the glass doors, chest heaving, neckline darkened with his own effort.

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