What makes a great opening line?
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What makes a great opening line?
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#2Surely: "It was the day my grandmother exploded" warrants a mention..
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#5“Are you from Tennessee?” Suddenly I feel like we’re talking about different things…
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#6"On our wedding day I was forty-six, she was eighteen. Now, I know what you are thinking: older man (not thin, somewhat bald, lame in one leg, teeth of wood) exercises the marital prerogative, thereby mortifying the poor young—
But that is false."
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#7“Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.”
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#8"Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure"*
-- Proust, A la recherche du temps perdu.
* For a long time, I would go to bed early.
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#9“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
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#10"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold."