Opening-lines Quotes

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anyb...

A mile below the lowest cloud, rock breaches water and the sea begins.It has been given many names. ...

What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal...

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i...

The madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through...ringing throughout the house was an ala...

Here we are, alone again. It's all so slow, so heavy, so sad. . . I'll be old soon. Then at last it ...

This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may...

I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected ...

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

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

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

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

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

If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most Ill-...

Who is John Galt?

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.