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People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I love you, love your work.' And then the next sentence is, 'I loved your brother.' John made people laugh, and laughter is a powerful thing. ↗

— James Belushi

#brother #coming #i #i love #i love you

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

— Shirley Jackson

#escapism #first-sentence #opening-lines #reality #sanity

Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#prison

Women have always been spies. ↗

— Harriet Rubin

#women #first-sentence

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. ↗

— Dodie Smith

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If you're going to read this, don't bother. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#opening-lines #first-sentence

Call me Ishmael. ↗

— Herman Melville

#introduction #opening-lines #sobriquet #first-sentence

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#opening-lines #first-sentence

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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All this happened, more or less. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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