285 Quotes About First-lines
- Author Gabriela García
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Jeanette, tell me that you want to live.-Of Women and Salt
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- Author Dawnie Walton
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Disclosure: My father, a drummer named Jimmy Curtis, fell in love with Opal Jewel in the summer of 1970.
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- Author Sayaka Murata
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Deep in the mountains of Akishina where Granny and Grandpa live, fragments of night linger even at midday.
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- Author Charles Yu
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Ever since you were a boy, you’ve dreamt of being Kung Fu Guy.
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- Author W. F. Harvey
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I have had what I believe to be the most remarkable day in my life, and while the events are still fresh in my mind, I wish to put them down on paper as clearly as possible. -From “August Heat
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- Author W. W. Jacobs
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Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly.
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- Author Charles Dickens
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I have always noticed a prevalent want of courage, even among persons of superior intelligence and culture, as to imparting their own psychological experiences when those have been of a strange sort.
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- Author Elizabeth Gaskell
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You know, my dears, that your mother was an orphan, and an only child; and I dare say you have heard that your grandfather was a clergyman up in Westmoreland, where I come from.
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- Author Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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The parties at the Tunons’ house always ended unquestionably late, and since the hosts enjoyed costume parties in particular, it was not unusual to see Chinas Poblanas with their folkloric skirts and ribbons in their hair arrive in the company of a harlequin or a cowboy.
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