Dr Mardy Grothe
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Dr Mardy Grothe
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A daily Celebration of Great Opening Lines in World Literature, all more fully explored on https://t.co/HaLejmQ3IV
Southern Pines, NC Katılım Eylül 2009
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Read Dr Mardy's Opening Lines and Quotations weekly on substack. drmardygrothe.substack.com #openinglines #firstsentences #quotations

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Read Dr Mardy's Opening Lines and Quotations weekly on substack. drmardygrothe.substack.com #openinglines #firstsentences #quotations

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Read Dr Mardy's Opening Lines and Quotations weekly on substack. drmardygrothe.substack.com #openinglines #firstsentences #quotations

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Hot kisses covered my face, dragging me from deep sleep to the rim of consciousness.
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"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much." The opening line of the week on Dr Mardy's new substack. drmardygrothe.substack.com #openinglines #firstsentences
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I first heard of Antonina on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America. Willa Cather, opening line of My Antonia (1918) #openinglines #firstsentences #332" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">greatopeninglines.com/novels#332
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When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake-not a very big one. Larry McMurtry, opening words of Lonesome Dove (1985) #openinglines #firstsentences #1228" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">greatopeninglines.com/novels#1228
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Tap-dancing child abuser. That's what the Sunday New York Times from March 8, 1993, had called Vivi. Rebecca Wells, opening words of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (1996) #openinglines #firstsentences #247" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">greatopeninglines.com/novels#247
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The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families. Jay McInerney, opening line of The Last of the Savages (1997) #openinglines #firstsentences #1227" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">greatopeninglines.com/novels#1227
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Once upon a time there was a six-toed cousin. Mine. Hedda Hopper, opening line of From Under My Hat (1952) #openinglines #firstsentences #767" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">greatopeninglines.com/non-fiction#767
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For forty years my act consisted of one joke. And then she died. George Burns, opening words of Gracie: A Love Story (1988) #openinglines #firstsentences #749" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">greatopeninglines.com/non-fiction#749
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Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen, and I was three. Billie Holiday, opening words of Lady Sings the Blues (1956) #openinglines #firstsentences #766" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">greatopeninglines.com/non-fiction#766
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