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[famousfirstsentences]

The make-up artist dabbed powder on Sheikh Hatem's forehead with the finesse of a professional.

The Televangelist by Ibrahim Essa (submitted by @thethinker351)

[famousfirstsentences]

In that place, where they tore the nightshade and blackberry patches from their roots to make room for the Medallion City Gold Course, there was once a neighborhood.

Sula by Toni Morrison 

[famousfirstsentences]

Now that I'm dead I know everything.

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

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Princeton, in the summer, smelled of nothing, and although Ifemelu liked the tranquil greenness of the many trees, the clean streets and stately homes, the delicately overpriced shops, and the quiet, abiding air of earned grace, it was this, the lack of a smell, that most appealed to her, perhaps because the other American cities she knew well had all smelled distinctly.

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

[famousfirstsentences]

In the day's last light the glowing lake below the palace-city looked like a sea of molten gold.

The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie

[famousfirstsentences]

The beet is the most intense of vegetables.

Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins

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Alexey Fyodorovich Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district in his own day (and still remembered among us) owing to his tragic and obscure death, which happened exactly thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its proper place.

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 

[ohh-c0mely]

hey, just wondering if you know how to get that red strip of colour in (mostly) landscape photos, such as the "untitled' one that you just reblogged? it would be wonderful if you could tell me how to do that in something like pixlr editor haha, thank you!!

Ahhh I think that its called a "light leak" and I'm really not sure how to manually get it in there! If any of my followers can answer this please message her!