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Best opening lines
There are a ton of classics opening lines from books and short stories from the Dickensian "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." to Nabakov's "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins." to Melville's "Call me Ishmael."
What's your favorite?
I just read a Steve Niles short story called "All My Bloody Things" (from a brilliant horror anthology called Dark Delicasies) that's so fucking hard boiled, it's scrambled. It opens with:
"By the time I came to, fuckhead El Beardo De Psycho was already trying to take a chunk out of my leg with a rusty scalpel. He had my pant leg ripped and my juicy thigh exposed.
The scalpel was pressed right into my fleshed when he paused and saw my eyes were open.
He was so fucking dead.
Stupid cannibals."
I laughed outloud in the coffee shop while reading this one yesterday.
You got one?
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"Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies."
Earl of Chesterfield
"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well."
Francis Bacon
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