Kristie
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"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Sept 19, 2007 15:35:32 GMT -5
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Lu
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Post by Lu on Sept 21, 2007 12:33:23 GMT -5
I would say I've heard it before too it sounds like a good first line.
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Sept 21, 2007 15:27:45 GMT -5
Thanks. Hope I didn't just take it from somewhere subconsciously.
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Lu
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Post by Lu on Sept 23, 2007 2:51:34 GMT -5
Thanks. Hope I didn't just take it from somewhere subconsciously. I do not think so It's YOUR first line.
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oureternity
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Post by oureternity on Sept 24, 2007 6:31:28 GMT -5
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on it's being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." - A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens.
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Halie
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Post by Halie on Aug 5, 2008 13:16:26 GMT -5
This is an old thread, but I kind of wanted to revive it.
"I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man."
-- Notes from Underground
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zeldafitzgerald
Collection of short stories bought by Random House
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on Aug 5, 2008 19:17:19 GMT -5
I like this thread too. And since I last wrote in it, I have a new favorite first line:
"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink."
from I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
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bookworm
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
"Everything you can imagine is real" - Pablo Picasso
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Post by bookworm on Aug 6, 2008 2:28:46 GMT -5
Since I'm reading it now:
"When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton."
from Lord of the Rings, Book one
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Halie
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Post by Halie on Dec 13, 2008 14:05:38 GMT -5
My favorite ever first two lines:
In my younger and more vulnerable days my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
-- The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2008 14:12:42 GMT -5
This is from the book I am currently reading:
" My nights were longer than my days, because at nights I was alone."
Sleep! by Annelies Verbeke It is a story of woman who can't sleep and she feels really alone and hates people who can sleep. it is a good book.
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Lu
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Post by Lu on Dec 15, 2008 7:34:08 GMT -5
I like those first lines. Even if I haven't read it yet, I would definitely think about Peter Pan! ...but who wouldn't??
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bookishgirl
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"Love all. Trust few. Do wrong to no one." --Skakespeare
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Post by bookishgirl on Jan 30, 2009 17:18:02 GMT -5
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possesion of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." -Pride and Prejudice
"I've never given much thought to how i would die." -Twilight
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