#opening

You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#opening-lines #christ

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. ↗

— George Orwell

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It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#opening-up #perception #perception

Art Matthews shot himself, loudly and messily, in front of the parade grounds at Dunstable Races. ↗

— Dick Francis

#art

Who is John Galt? ↗

— Ayn Rand

#galt #objectivism #opening-lines #philosophy #taggart

Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#first-sentence #opening-lines #first-sentence

As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

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As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

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I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of. ↗

— George Clooney

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With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

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