#opening

I was an opening act for 10 years. ↗

— Shelby Lynne

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Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#opening-lines #life

There are only two kinds of people in our town. The stupid and the stuck." ↗

— Kami Garcia

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My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#family

This is life, the one you get so go and have a ball, because the world don't move, to the beat of just one drum. What might be right for you, may not be right for some. You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have my opening statement..sit ubu sit. Good dog. ↗

— Seth MacFarlane

#opening-statement #peter-griffin #family

That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#love

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. ↗

— Shirley Jackson

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It was a pleasure to burn. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#opening-lines #pleasure

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#trials

Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. ↗

— Rick Riordan

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