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  • #1
    “ALL THESE FUCKIN’ ROACHES AND SHIT! AHHHHH! GOD MOTHAFUCKIN’ DAMN IT!!”
    ― Quan Millz, This Hoe Got Roaches In Her Crib
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: first-sentence, human-nature, opening-lines
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    Charles Dickens
    “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”
    ― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
    tags: biography, opening-lines
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    Ray Bradbury
    “It was a pleasure to burn.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: first-lines, opening-lines
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    Rafael Sabatini
    “He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
    ― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
    tags: epitaph, first-sentence, great-first-lines, laughter, literary, merriment, opening-lines
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    tags: first-sentence, opening-lines
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    George Orwell
    “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines
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  • #8
    “In the beginning we were a group of nine.

    Three are gone, dead.
    There are six of us left.
    They are hunting us, and they won't stop until they've killed us all.

    I am Number Four.

    I know that I am next.”
    ― Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four
    tags: first-lines, opening-lines
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  • #9
    Herman Melville
    “Call me Ishmael.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
    tags: first-sentence, introduction, opening-lines, sobriquet
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  • #10
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “If you're going to read this, don't bother.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
    tags: first-sentences, opening-lines
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    Alice Sebold
    “My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.”
    ― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
    tags: first-lines, inspirational, life-and-death, opening-lines
    217 likes

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  • #12
    Blaise Pascal
    “The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”
    ― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
    tags: creative-process, despair, life-and-death, on-writing, opening-lines, poetry
    193 likes

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  • #13
    Franz Kafka
    “Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.”
    ― Franz Kafka, The Trial
    tags: opening-lines
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    Neil Gaiman
    “There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: first-sentence, opening-lines
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    Louis Sachar
    “There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.”
    ― Louis Sachar, Holes
    tags: first-lines, opening-lines
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    James Patterson
    “Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.”
    ― James Patterson, The Angel Experiment
    tags: first-lines, opening-lines, warning
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    Kami Garcia
    “There are only two kinds of people in our town. The stupid and the stuck."”
    ― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures
    tags: first-line, first-lines, opening-lines
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  • #18
    Richard Stark
    “When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man.”
    ― Richard Stark, Firebreak
    tags: opening-lines
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  • #19
    “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. It was the future, and everything sucked.”
    ― Greg Nagan, The 5-Minute Iliad and Other Instant Classics: Great Books For The Short Attention Span
    tags: first-lines, first-sentence, first-words, humor, opening-lines, parody
    20 likes

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  • #20
    “I am a vampire. Blood does not bother me.”
    ― Christopher Pike, Red Dice
    tags: opening-lines
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  • #21
    Carson McCullers
    “In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together.”
    ― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    tags: first-lines, opening-lines
    19 likes



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