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I might be the villain of this story. ↗

— Rebecca Makkai

#villains #first-sentence

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#contracted #effect #i #illness #institutions

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ↗

— Charles A. Beard

#dark #destroy #enough #exceedingly #fertilizes

Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him. ↗

— Robert Bloch

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At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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Too many!' James shouted, and slammed the door behind him. ↗

— Susan Cooper

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The sun appears in one of the upper corners of the rectangle, on the left of anyone looking at the picture. ↗

— José Saramago

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Baby," groaned the guy-Ted? Tad?-something like that-and crushed his lips against the side of her neck, shoving her face against the wall of the toilet stall. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

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I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences. ↗

— Gary Soto

#poetry #first-sentence