FAMOUS OPENING SENTENCES
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
You don't know about me without you have a read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain't no matter.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.
The Stranger by Albert Camus
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
From The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson*
*This is generally considered the most famous sentence in the English language.
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Monday, December 4, 2017
Saturday, November 18, 2017
CALL ME ISHMAEL
Opening sentences from Moby Dick
By Herman Melville
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
IT IS A TRUTH UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED
Opening paragraph of Pride and Prejudice
By Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feeling or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
IN THE BEGINNING
The first three verses of the Bible
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Opening sentences from Moby Dick
By Herman Melville
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
IT IS A TRUTH UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED
Opening paragraph of Pride and Prejudice
By Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feeling or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
IN THE BEGINNING
The first three verses of the Bible
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Saturday, August 17, 2013
THE FIRST WEEK OF AUGUST
Opening paragraph of Tuck Everlasting
By Natalie Babbit
The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank, white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for after.
Opening paragraph of Tuck Everlasting
By Natalie Babbit
The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank, white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for after.
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