The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.
Dan SavageTag: politics happiness first-sentence
On December 7, 2059, Emilio Sandoz was released from the isolation ward of Salvator Mundi Hospital in the middle of the night and transported in a bread van to the Jesuit residence at Number 5 Borgo Santo Spirito, a few minutes' walk across St. Peter's Square from the Vatican.
Mary Doria RussellTag: first-sentence
Celestina Giuliani learned the word "slander" at her cousin's baptism.
Mary Doria RussellTag: first-sentence
I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.
Orson Scott CardTag: first-sentence
A squat gray building of only thirty-four stories.
Aldous HuxleyTag: first-sentence
All this happened, more or less.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tag: first-sentence
The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.
H.G. WellsTag: first-sentence
We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.
M.T. AndersonTag: first-sentence
Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.
William GibsonTag: first-sentence
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. WellsTag: first-sentence opening-lines first-lines
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