On a blog I follow this person has a post about great opening and closing lines from books. They can be found on the American Book Review website. It's no wonder some of these are classics. I wish my life could be narrated with some of these. How funny.
"The sun shone, having no alternative, on nothing new." --Samuel Beckett Murphy (1933)
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." —L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between (1953)
"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink." —Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle (1948)
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