Monday, June 22, 2009

Openers


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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