There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus.
Joshilyn JacksonTags: alabama first-sentence opening-lines
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
Rafael SabatiniTags: laughter first-sentence opening-lines epitaph great-first-lines literary merriment
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
George OrwellTags: first-sentence opening-lines april dystopia
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane AustenTags: opening-lines marriage husband wife
It was a pleasure to burn.
Ray BradburyTags: opening-lines first-lines
If you're going to read this, don't bother.
Chuck PalahniukTags: opening-lines first-sentences
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Charles DickensTags: first-sentence opening-lines
You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't.
Christopher MooreTags: opening-lines first-lines
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
H.G. WellsTags: first-sentence opening-lines first-lines
Call me Ishmael.
Herman MelvilleTags: first-sentence opening-lines introduction sobriquet
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