329 Quotes About Opening-lines
- Author Jared Diamond
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A suitable starting point from which to compare historical developments on the different continents is around 11,000 B.C.
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- Author Anthony Doerr
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At dusk they pour from the sky,
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- Author Steven Price
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He was the oldest son.
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- Author Ernest Hemingway
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He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eight-four days now without taking a fish.
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- Author Erik Larson
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How easy it was to disappear: A thousand trains a day entered or left Chicago.
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- Author F Scott Fitzgerald
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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
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- Author Colson Whitehead
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The first time Caesar approached Cora about running north, she said no.
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- Author Viet Thanh Nguyen
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I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces.
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- Author Noah Hawley
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A private plane sits on a runway in Martha’s Vineyard, forward stairs deployed.
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