Famous First Sentences @FirstsFamous

Famous, fantastic first sentences from the best novels, non-fiction, and movies of all time. The Beginning Joined April 2021

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"If you wanted to get rich, how would you do it?" From "How to Make Wealth" by @paulg paulgraham.com/wealth.html

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A gentleman and a lady traveling from Tunbridge towards that part of the Sussex coast which lies between Hastings and Eastbourne, being induced by business to quit the high road and attempt a very rough lane, were overturned in toiling up its long ascent, half rock, half sand.

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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. -- From: Anna Karenina - amzn.to/2X77WqR

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“This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.” - amzn.to/3ygMg9p

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We're here for inspiration, fun, and to discover amazing new ideas.

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"I'm pretty much fucked." From: The Martian by @andyweirauthor amzn.to/3zrn67G

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Far Out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. -- From: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - amzn.to/3a8Iy74

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A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead. -- From: The End of the Affair - amzn.to/3ksmEl3

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Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. -- From: Lolita - amzn.to/3nh1YOP

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"The world is a very malleable place." simonsarris.substack.com/p/the-most-pre…

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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. -- From: Nineteen Eighty-Four - amzn.to/3jX0PtH

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"You were on your way home when you died." From: The Egg, a short story by @andyweirauthor (who also wrote The Martian and Artemis) galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_…

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It was the day my grandmother exploded. -- From: The Crow Road - amzn.to/2ZbI9hN

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I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. -- From: I Capture the Castle - amzn.to/38SmAob

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4 years ago

A Treatise on Efficacy, recc by @BlasMoros

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4 years ago

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap...

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"What if I told you about a business with strong network effects and 200x YoY revenue growth that was preparing to offer a 25% dividend and implement a permanent share buyback program?" From @packyM notboring.co/p/own-the-inte…

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We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. -- From: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream - amzn.to/2X8JxBd

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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous insect. -- From: The Metamorphosis - amzn.to/3DTwHr0