#sentence

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

— Shirley Jackson

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

Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#prison

We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck. ↗

— M.T. Anderson

#fun

There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus. ↗

— Joshilyn Jackson

#first-sentence #opening-lines #jesus

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#could #death #i #me #said

And in the last sentence I would like also to mention that Poland is one of the countries with which the United States has run strategic dialogues since last year. ↗

— Marek Belka

#countries #dialogues #i #last #last year

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#inalienable #logical #picturesque #poetry #sentences

I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#computer #i #i love #idea #know

Sentence first, verdict afterwards. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#first #sentence #verdict

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#drawn #experience #i #i believe #many