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    1. briannandaisies on

      “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

    2. Opus-the-Penguin on

      “It was a pleasure to burn.” We could ratchet up the difficulty by at least an order of magnitude by stipulating that it can’t be the opening line. I’d have to think a lot harder then.

    3. eric_the_bean on

      The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed.

    4. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”

    5. “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

    6. Mediocre_Let1814 on

      Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

    7. We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers . . . and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.

    8. Lazy-Thanks8244 on

      We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.

    9. The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

    10. “Remember that hope is a good thing … maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”

    11. coala12369 on

      “Brutus is an honorable man”

      Or

      “My name is ozymandias, king of kings, look at my works ye mighty and despair.

    12. missdawn1970 on

      When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

    13. “I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.”

      Alternatively, “Slag off, you pixie!”

    14. McDragonFish on

      When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie theater…

    15. “And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

    16. Dismal_Tank1484 on

      « Aujourd’hui, maman est morte. »
      “Mother died today.”

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