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Some Great First Lines in Literature

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  • I put these together a while ago, and then didn’t do anything else with them.  I’m not sure what I was up to, so I’m posting what I have, simply because it is a niuce read.   A Tale of Two Cities is still a stellar entrance.

All
children, except one, grow up. Peter Pan

In
an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived twelve little
girls in two straight lines. Madeline/Bemelmans

The
Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his
little home.Wind in Willows/Grahame

In
the great green room, there was a telephone and a red
balloon.Goodnight Moon/MW Brown

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?” Alice in Wonderland


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