Famous First Sentences

[lavender]

 

[kotori]

Re: Another round?

For a long time I used to go to bed early.

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

 

[Hamletmaschine]

You got it!

 

[APhil]

Re: Re: Try these out....

3. If only you could see me now.

???

4. I saw a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

H.G. Wells - just not sure what book.

Any more takers?

 

[angie girl]

Loving this post, but am too uneducated to get most of it.

My favorite opening line is too easy -

'Call me Ishmael.'

But also, from one a my fav books -

'We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee...'

but my all time fav line is from the last page of a book -

'for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understaood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.'

I like the capacity to wonder part.