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Few people deliver a soliloquy quite like Alec Baldwin.
What is the best sentence, line you've read in a book, or watched on a TV show/film? ETC!
Luke, I am your father.
It is kinda weird that one of my favourite sentences comes from HP Lovecraft but this opening is brilliant for his story.HP Lovecraft in The Colour out of Space said:West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut.
JD Salinger said:If you really want to hear about it, the first first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice said:It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife
There is an entire story in only one sentence.Lenard Michaels in Honeymoon said:One summer, at a honeymoon resort in the Catskill mountains, I saw a young woman named Sheila Kahn fall in love with her waiter.
Toni Morrison said:They shoot the white girl first.
Ray Bradbury said:It was a pleasure to burn.
Gilbert Sorrentino said:What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long and well-made legs out before you, so that her skirt slips up to the tops of her stockings?
Salman Rushdie said:"To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die."
Hunter S. Thompson said:We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
From The Satanic Verses, which I actually think is overrated but that opener is stunning.The Satanic Verses said:"To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die."
Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and loathing in Las Vegas said:We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive….” And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. And a voice was screaming: “Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?
Philip Roth in Goodbye said:The first time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her glasses
Samuel Beckett in Murphy said:The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
Camus competing against Beckett for king of emotional emptinessAlbert Camus in The Stranger said:Mother died today.
Cheating again, I know, but this is how you give a teaser to the rest of your story.Vladimir Nabakov in Lolita said:Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palette to tap, at three, the teeth. Lo. Lee Ta.
She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.
"It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."
What is the best sentence, line you've read in a book, or watched on a TV show/film? ETC!