#opening

Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be ↗

— Téa Obreht

#fiction #opening-lines #home

To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#opening-lines #life

First, I'm going to give you all the Copperfield crap, and I'm not going to apologize for any of it, not one paragraph, so if you're not interested in how I came to see the future, or how I came to understand that the biggest truth in my life was a lie, or, for that matter, how I parlayed my distaste for hot dogs into an '84 RX-7 and a new self-concept, do us both a favor, and just stop now. ↗

— Jonathan Evison

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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. ↗

— Shirley Jackson

#escapism #first-sentence #opening-lines #reality #sanity

It was a pleasure to burn. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#opening-lines #pleasure

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#trials

If you're going to read this, don't bother. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#opening-lines #first-sentence

Call me Ishmael. ↗

— Herman Melville

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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#opening-lines #first-sentence

When you go to the movie theater and the opening of this movie and you see the kids just cracking up with a character you are giving your voice to, you get goose bumps. It's so beautiful. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

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