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I first heard of Antonina on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America. Willa Cather, opening line of My Antonia (1918) #openinglines #firstsentences greatopeninglines.com/novels…

When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake-not a very big one. Larry McMurtry, opening words of Lonesome Dove (1985) #openinglines #firstsentences greatopeninglines.com/novels…

Tap-dancing child abuser. That's what the Sunday New York Times from March 8, 1993, had called Vivi. Rebecca Wells, opening words of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (1996) #openinglines #firstsentences greatopeninglines.com/novels…

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families. Jay McInerney, opening line of The Last of the Savages (1997) #openinglines #firstsentences greatopeninglines.com/novels…

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Once upon a time there was a six-toed cousin. Mine. Hedda Hopper, opening line of From Under My Hat (1952) #openinglines #firstsentences greatopeninglines.com/non-fi…

For forty years my act consisted of one joke. And then she died. George Burns, opening words of Gracie: A Love Story (1988) #openinglines #firstsentences greatopeninglines.com/non-fi…

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen, and I was three. Billie Holiday, opening words of Lady Sings the Blues (1956) #openinglines #firstsentences greatopeninglines.com/non-fi…

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If not for an aphorism by W. H. Auden, I might never have met my wife. James Geary, opening line of The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism (2005) #openinglines #firstsentences greatopeninglines.com/non-fi…