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Post by WullieFort on Feb 8, 2020 17:01:55 GMT
1. "Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."
2. "Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?”
3. "Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested."
4. "A mighty fist of wind socked the balloon in two rapid blows, one-two, the second more vicious than the first."
5. "All children, except one, grow up."
6. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
7."The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say.”
8. "I write this sitting in the kitchen sink."
9. "You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings."
10. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way."
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Post by Carl LaFong on Feb 8, 2020 17:49:13 GMT
1) Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
2) The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland
3) The Trial by Frank Kafka
5) Peter Pan
6) Pride and Prejudice
10) A Tale of Two Cities
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Feb 8, 2020 17:50:53 GMT
6. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
larry crowne?
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Feb 8, 2020 18:07:05 GMT
1, 2, 5, 10
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Post by Aj_June on Feb 8, 2020 19:26:41 GMT
1) Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone 2) The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland 3) The Trial by Frank Kafka 5) Peter Pan 6) Pride and Prejudice 10) A Tale of Two Cities Some jackass made this list else no.10 would be no.1.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Feb 8, 2020 19:30:27 GMT
1) Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone 2) The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland 3) The Trial by Frank Kafka 5) Peter Pan 6) Pride and Prejudice 10) A Tale of Two Cities Some jackass made this list else no.10 would be no.1. It’s not a ranking as far as I’m aware. Anyway I prefer a first line that isn’t even included: “The past is a foreign country; they do things different there.”
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2020 19:45:35 GMT
Some jackass made this list else no.10 would be no.1. Anyway I prefer a first line that isn’t even included: “The past is a foreign country; they do things different there.” I'll go with... "Jesus Christ what a fucking wreck I am, my face looks a hundred years old, people would scream if I went out on the streets, my hair's all falling out, there's a woman from the Milk Marketing Board trying to kill me."
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Post by Carl LaFong on Feb 8, 2020 20:05:46 GMT
Anyway I prefer a first line that isn’t even included: “The past is a foreign country; they do things different there.” I'll go with... "Jesus Christ what a fucking wreck I am, my face looks a hundred years old, people would scream if I went out on the streets, my hair's all falling out, there's a woman from the Milk Marketing Board trying to kill me." Northanger Abbey?!
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Feb 8, 2020 20:09:58 GMT
A couple of my favorites...
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking 13."
"Well Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Bonapartes." (Snoopy taught me this one)
And my favorite...
"The Man in Black fled across the Desert and the Gunslinger followed"
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Post by WullieFort on Feb 8, 2020 21:28:11 GMT
I like 7 & 8
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Post by DrKrippen on Feb 8, 2020 22:38:41 GMT
I've got one for ya.
"It began as a mistake."
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Feb 8, 2020 22:57:40 GMT
Only ones I knew were Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, Pride and Prejudice and Charles Dickens.
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Post by millar70 on Feb 8, 2020 23:07:14 GMT
I've got one for ya. "It began as a mistake." Sounds like Bukowski to me. Post Office.
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Post by DrKrippen on Feb 8, 2020 23:17:58 GMT
Yup.
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Post by orlandogardner on Feb 8, 2020 23:58:20 GMT
Knew 1, 2, 5, 6 & 10. Should have gotten 9 though, it's one of my favourite books. It's these small defeats in life that sting the most.
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Feb 9, 2020 1:00:27 GMT
I always liked this one;
Suppose that you and I were sitting in a quiet room overlooking a garden, chatting and sipping at our cups of green tea while we talked about something that had happened a long while ago, and I said to you, "That afternoon when I met so-and-so...was the very best afternoon of my life, and also the very worst afternoon." I expect you might put down your teacup and say, "Well, now, which was it? Was it the best or the worst? Because it can't possibly have been both!"
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Post by klawrencio79 on Feb 9, 2020 1:08:47 GMT
The opening line from my personal favorite book: "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
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