329 Quotes About Opening-lines
- Author Paul Beatty
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I suppose that's exactly the problem--I wasn't to know any better.
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- Author Sandra Cisneros
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We didn't always live on Mango Street.
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- Author Celeste Ng
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Lydia is dead.
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- Author Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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Readers, friends, less than friends, enemies, Critics! Here I am at it again with Book I of Guignol! Don't judge me too soon! Wait awhile for what's to follow! Book II! Book III! it all clears up! develops, straightens out! As is, ¾ of it's missing! Is that a way to do things? It had to be printed fast because with things as they are you don't know who's living or dead!
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- Author Thomas E. Ricks
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On December 13, 1931, a fifty-seven-year-old English politician, still a member of Parliament but quite unwelcome in his own party’s government, stepped out of a taxi on New York’s Fifth Avenue.
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- Author Martin Ashwell
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There were times when Josh Heller wished that his former employers hadn’t been quite so thorough in their training; that they hadn’t left him with such an exotic collection of skills, now safely locked away in the attic of his mind.
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- Author Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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It is an ancyant Marinere, And he stoppeth one of three:‘By thy long grey beard and thy glittering eyeNow wherefore stoppest me?
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- Author John Banville
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They departed, the gods, on the day of the strange tide.
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- Author Fatima Farheen Mirza
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As Amar watched the hall fill with guests arriving for his sister’s wedding, he promised himself he would stay.
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