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First lines
Write the best first sentence you’ve seen in a book, or first line in a poem, or a first sentence or line from one of your own works. No explanation, no context, just the line and where it’s from
Ended June 16, 2022 • 12 Entries • Created by Jessisdramatic
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Write the best first sentence you’ve seen in a book, or first line in a poem, or a first sentence or line from one of your own works. No explanation, no context, just the line and where it’s from
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SamWebster
• 35 reads

My favorite first lines

It's always a tie for me between:

"Our is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically." - Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

and the equally impactful:

"It has been reported that Tanuki fell from the sky using his scrotum as a parachute." - Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins.

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Write the best first sentence you’ve seen in a book, or first line in a poem, or a first sentence or line from one of your own works. No explanation, no context, just the line and where it’s from
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ThatGirlAJ
• 28 reads

My Favorite First Line

"In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth."

The first line from the Holy Bible

King James Version

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Write the best first sentence you’ve seen in a book, or first line in a poem, or a first sentence or line from one of your own works. No explanation, no context, just the line and where it’s from
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Riley_45
• 10 reads

dearly, dearly, dearly

"you were the one, and you were the only one, and you were amazing."

- dearly by likeshining (og quote taken from gia, 1998)

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Write the best first sentence you’ve seen in a book, or first line in a poem, or a first sentence or line from one of your own works. No explanation, no context, just the line and where it’s from
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Luciwuzhere
• 6 reads

First Line

The day you sit old and alone in a house surrounded by all your clutter and trinkets that were so valuable to you, then can you answer me this question: Was I wrong?

From one of my own works.

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Write the best first sentence you’ve seen in a book, or first line in a poem, or a first sentence or line from one of your own works. No explanation, no context, just the line and where it’s from
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dctezcan
• 23 reads

Not your garden variety fairy tale

"Érase una vez una prostituta llamada Maria." ("Once upon a time, there was a prostitute named Maria.") (My translation)

Once minutos (Eleven Minutes)

Paulo Coelho

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First lines
Write the best first sentence you’ve seen in a book, or first line in a poem, or a first sentence or line from one of your own works. No explanation, no context, just the line and where it’s from
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DrSemicolon
• 14 reads

The Life and Times of Climax Johnson

Climax Johnson never resented being named Climax Johnson--Johnson, after who his father was, and Climax after what his father did.

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Write the best first sentence you’ve seen in a book, or first line in a poem, or a first sentence or line from one of your own works. No explanation, no context, just the line and where it’s from
Joules
• 6 reads

Poe

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,"

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

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Write the best first sentence you’ve seen in a book, or first line in a poem, or a first sentence or line from one of your own works. No explanation, no context, just the line and where it’s from
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REllyn
• 8 reads

the new sun sparkled gold

"It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea."

Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

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Write the best first sentence you’ve seen in a book, or first line in a poem, or a first sentence or line from one of your own works. No explanation, no context, just the line and where it’s from
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Aminanimator
• 9 reads

A tale

Once upon a time, far away, there was a happy kingdom ruled by a king.

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Write the best first sentence you’ve seen in a book, or first line in a poem, or a first sentence or line from one of your own works. No explanation, no context, just the line and where it’s from
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RWEV2112
• 3 reads

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.

Has always said a lot to me

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