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The Best 100 Opening Lines From Books

“ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First and is in print large enough to be seen from the backseat of the cab as it lurches forward in the traffic leaving Wall Street and just as Timothy Price notices the words a bus pulls up, the advertisement for Les Miserables on its side blocking his view, but Price who is with Pierce & Pierce and twenty-six doesn't seem to care because he tells the driver he will give him five dollars to turn up the radio, ‘Be My Baby’ on WYNN, and the driver, black, not American, does so.” American Psycho , Bret Easton Ellis http://www.stylist.co.uk/life/the-best-100-opening-lines-from-books
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Baggage

After a day at the races in England, a friend told Mark Twain, “I wish you’d buy me a ticket back to London.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Stand_at_My_Grave_and_Weep

Do not Stand at my Grave and Weep

Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep is a poem written in 1932 by Mary Elizabeth Frye .
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6:59 AM - Riley Dog

I’ve been told that people in the army do more by 7:00 am than I do in an entire day but if I wake at 6:59 am and turn to you to trace the outline of your lips with mine I will have done enough and killed no one in the process. Sketch