📖 OPENING LINES FROM LITERATURE;; STARTER SENTENCES. 📖
❛ To get there you follow Highway 58, going northeast out of the city, and it is a good highway and new. ❜
❛ My high school friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life. ❜
❛ _____ didn’t know if he could fart his way into a major diplomatic incident. But he was ready to find out. ❜
❛ Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ❜
❛ I’ve been called _____ all my life, but my name’s _____. ❜
❛ The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. ❜
❛ There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of canker. ❜
❛ The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault. ❜
❛ I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world. ❜
❛ Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, baripity, baripity–Good. ❜
❛ The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ❜
❛ Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. ❜
❛ 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, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. ❜
❛ If you’re going to read this, don’t bother. ❜
❛ You better not never tell nobody but God. ❜
❛ A voice comes to one in the dark. ❜
❛ The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. ❜
❛ It was the day my grandmother exploded. ❜
❛ It was 7 minutes after midnight. ❜
❛ When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere. ❜
❛ Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness. ❜
❛ This time there would be no witnesses. ❜
❛ That’s good thinking there, _____. ❜
❛ In a sense, I am _____. ❜
❛ The beginning is simple to mark. ❜
❛ What about the teakettle? What if the spout opened and closed when the steam came out, so it would become a mouth, and it could whistle pretty melodies, or do Shakespeare, or just crack up with me. ❜
❛ It was a pleasure to burn. ❜
❛ It was like so, but wasn’t. ❜
❛ In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. ❜
❛ I told you last night that I might be gone sometime, and you said, Where, and I said, To be with the Good Lord, and you said, Why, and I said, Because I’m old, and you said, I don’t think you’re old. ❜
❛ Everyone had always said that _____ would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father. ❜
❛ The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. ❜
❛ It was time to whip the god. ❜
❛ This is the saddest story I have ever heard. ❜
❛ There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife. ❜
❛ A screaming comes across the sky. ❜
❛ In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. ❜
❛ No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. ❜
❛ When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold. ❜
❛ For a long time, I went to bed early. ❜
❛ I am an invisible man. ❜
❛ The first time I read the ad, I choked and cursed and spat and threw the paper to the floor. ❜
❛ Kidnapping children is never a good idea; all the same, sometimes it has to be done. ❜
❛ There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. ❜
❛ The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn’t sure it was worth the effort. ❜
❛ _____, light of my life, fire of my loins. ❜
❛ My purpose is to tell of bodies which have been transformed into shapes of a different kind. ❜
❛ I am a sick man… I am a spiteful man. I am an unpleasant man. I think my liver is diseased. ❜
❛ All children, except one, grow up. ❜
❛ My wound is geography. ❜
❛ He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. ❜
❛ All this happened, more or less. ❜
❛ Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Four shots ripped into my groin and I was off on the greatest adventure of my life! ❜
❛ True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? ❜
❛ Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. ❜
❛ In my earliest memory, my grandfather is as bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers. ❜
❛ Not every 13-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. ❜
❛ Where now? Who now? When now? ❜
❛ Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. ❜
❛ It was a dark and stormy night. ❜