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Top 10 first lines in fiction
The Guardian ^
| 4-5-2023
| Liz Nugent
Posted on 04/05/2023 8:34:50 PM PDT by Saije
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To: DannyTN
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posted on
04/05/2023 8:54:05 PM PDT
by
Saije
To: Saije
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
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posted on
04/05/2023 8:55:31 PM PDT
by
Ciaphas Cain
(#notmypedophile)
To: Ciaphas Cain
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posted on
04/05/2023 8:56:05 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: Saije
“Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Four shots ripped into my groin and I was off on the greatest adventure of my life…”
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posted on
04/05/2023 8:57:07 PM PDT
by
D_Idaho
("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
To: Saije
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posted on
04/05/2023 8:57:49 PM PDT
by
Pelham
(Joe Biden, Brain of the American Left)
To: Saije
How about this one?
"The Jebel Es Zubleh is a mountain fifty miles and more in length and so narrow that its tracery on the map gives it a likeness to a caterpillar crawling from the south to the north."
From Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace (New York: Harper, 1880).
To: Pelham
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posted on
04/05/2023 9:02:12 PM PDT
by
mfish13
(Elections have Consequences.)
To: Saije
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.“
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posted on
04/05/2023 9:02:25 PM PDT
by
hardspunned
(Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
To: Kartographer
To: Fiji Hill
The greatest opening line of the greatest book ever written:
In the beginning....(Genesis 1:1)
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posted on
04/05/2023 9:05:33 PM PDT
by
gas_dr
(Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will )
To: Saije
I would have been convicted with a run-on sentence in 11th grade AP.
"Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego."
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posted on
04/05/2023 9:07:33 PM PDT
by
eyedigress
(Trump is my President!)
To: gas_dr
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posted on
04/05/2023 9:08:28 PM PDT
by
eyedigress
(Trump is my President!)
To: Saije
“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it”.
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posted on
04/05/2023 9:10:35 PM PDT
by
DejaJude
(I'll be back, again.)
To: eyedigress
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams.
Awesome five book trilogy!
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posted on
04/05/2023 9:11:27 PM PDT
by
Don W
(When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn)
To: LVS1
“MARLEY was dead: to begin with.”
I always loved that opening line. I think I liked it a lot because my Dad always used “Dead as a door nail.” It took me until high school English Lit to understand where Dad got it from.
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posted on
04/05/2023 9:11:35 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone els)
To: eyedigress
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posted on
04/05/2023 9:12:55 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." J)
To: Pelham
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posted on
04/05/2023 9:13:24 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." J)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.'
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posted on
04/05/2023 9:13:48 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: Saije
It’s from The Guardian. Expect the communist point of view. Yeah no real classics in the list at all. Worthless article.
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posted on
04/05/2023 9:14:46 PM PDT
by
xp38
To: eyedigress
Was that GEORGE COSTANZA’S line from Seinfeld????
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posted on
04/05/2023 9:16:21 PM PDT
by
Hambone 1934
(Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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