Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Favorite Opening Lines from Stories

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

"Mrs. Whitaker found the Holy Grail; it was under a fur coat."

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."

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

"Once up on a time..."

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