itwasthebestoflines. itwasthefirstoflines.

i'll start you off. you finish them.

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"I Am Trying To Break Your Heart" by Wilco, from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002).

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“The Old Man and the Sea“ by Ernest Hemingway (1952).

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“I Don’t Want to Die Anymore” by The Smith Street Band, from Throw Me in the River (2014).

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“If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed." 

 The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath

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“Devil’s Tongue” by Big Heavy Stuff, from Size of the Ocean (2001).

[literatureiscool]

Though brilliantly sunny, Saturday morning was overcoat weather again, not just topcoat weather, as it had been all week and as everyone hoped it would stay for the big weekend — the weekend of the Yale game. Of the twenty-some young men who were waiting at the station for their dates to arrive on the ten-fifty-two, no more than six or seven were out on the cold, open platform. The rest were standing around in hatless, smoky little groups of twos and threes and fours inside the heated waiting room, talking in voices that, almost without exception, sounded collegiately dogmatic, as though each young man, in his strident, conversational turn, was clearing up, once and for all, some highly controversial issue, one that the outside, non-matriculating world had been bungling, provocatively or not, for centuries.

[literatureiscool]

—  Franny and Zooey (1961), J. D. Salinger

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A coma might feel better than this // City and Colour.

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[itwasthebestoflines]

“Of Mice and Men”, John Steinbeck (1937).

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I heard there was a secret chord // Leonard Cohen.

[itwasthebestoflines]

“I Don’t Want to Die Anymore” by The Smith Street Band, from Throw Me in the River (2014).

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“Holocene" by Bon Iver, from Bon Iver, Bon Iver (2011).

[literatureiscool]

I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.

— The Adventures of Augie March (1953), S. Bellow

[itwasthebestoflines]

“The Unbroke Part Of It" by Deloris, from Fake Our Deaths (2005).

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“I Don’t Want to Die Anymore” by The Smith Street Band, from Throw Me in the River (2014).

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“Clearing” by Grouper, from Ruins (2014).

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I collect opening lines in novels