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"It was a Saturday night when the man with the red waistcoat arrived in London."

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"At 4.30 am on Friday the 23rd of January, my father, Joesph Brennan, closed the front door of our home for the last time."

#the story of tom brennan #j.c. burke #famous first sentence

"At almost one o'clock I entered the lobby of the building where I worked and turned toward the escalators, carry a black Penguin paperback and a small white CVS bag, its receipt stapled over the top."

#the mezzanine #nicholson baker #famous first sentence

"When you came in the space was desultory, rectangular, warm after the drip of the winter night, and transfused with a brown-orange dust to was light."

#no more parades #ford madox ford #famous first sentence

"As Karl Rossmann, a poor boy of sixteen who had been packed off to America by his parents because a servant girl had seduced him and got herself with child by him, stood on the liner slowly entering the harbour of New York, a sudden burst of sunshine seemed to illuminate the Statue of Liberty, so that he saw it in a new light, although he had sighted it long before."

#franz kafka #america #famous first sentence

"The primroses were over."

#watership down #richard adams #famous first sentence

"The rue de Coq d'Or, Paris, seven in the morning."

#george orwell #down and out in paris and london #famous first sentence

"They didn't say anything about this in the books, I thought, as the snow blew in through the gaping doorway and settled on my naked back."

#if only they could talk #james herriot #famous first sentence

"The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to say that it was the only case he had met in which such a visitation had fallen on a child."

#henry james #the turn of the screw #famous first sentence

"Norman, born sign of Aquarius, had been in Mexico when the news came about Hemingway."

#a fire on the moon #norman mailer #famous first sentence

"To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman."

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"Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin."

#a.a. milne #winnie-the-pooh #famous first sentence

"There was a rough stone age and a smooth stone age and a bronze age, and many years afterward a cut-glass age."

#f scott fitzgerald #the stories of f scott fitzgerald #the diamond as big as the ritz and other stories #famous first sentence

"Among other public buildings in a certain town which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, it boasts of one which is common to most towns, great or small, to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born, on a day and date which I need not take upon myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events, the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter."

#oliver twist #charles dickens #famous first sentence

"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold."

#fear and loathing in las vegas #fear and loathing #hunter s thompson #hunter s. thompson #hunter thompson #famous first sentence

"A girl and an older woman were walking along a metalled path-way."

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"I first came to know Sophia Leonides in Egypt towards the end of the war."

#agatha christie #crooked house #famousfirstsentence

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