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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
Recognize that line? It’s the first one in George Orwell’s 1984, and part of Pantagraph’s list of the 100 Best First Lines From Novels. Browse through and see what there is to see, because your next read might be just a line away.
[Pantagraph - 100 Best First Lines From Novels]
[Via: Sand & Cotton]
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I’m doing a creative writing degree and we had a whole seminar dedicated to the first line of novels. They are stupendously important, though the subsequent hundreds of lines are too (^_~), and the list here demonstrates that.
Nice literary link. ^^
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