I'm doing a tiny study on how authors open their novels, and it's easiest for me to understand the patterns when they're all jammed together like this.
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He lay flat on the brown, pine needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees.
For Whom the Bell Tolls//Ernest Hemingway
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3 May Bistritz—Left Munich at 8.35 p.m. on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6.46, but train was an hour late.
Dracula//Bram Stoker
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I lie all the time.
Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List//Rachel Cohn and David Levathan
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This is written from memory, unfortunately.
Herland//Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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The sun had not yet risen.
The Waves//Virginia Woolf
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He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.
The Old Man and the Sea//Ernest Hemingway
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My name is Kathy H. I'm thirty-one years old, and I've been a carer now for over eleven years.
Never Let Me Go//Kazuo Ishiguro
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My father was a king and the son of kings.
The Song of Archilles//Madeline Miller
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Haven was back.
The Eternal Ones//Kristen Miller
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I am afraid.
Z for Zachariah//Robert C O'Brien
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First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey.
Things They Carried//Tim O'Brien
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What if Shakespeare had it wrong?
Just One Day//Gayle Forman
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Nothing about this room is real.
These Broken Stars//Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
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"It's not the end of the world," Stacy said.
We All Looked Up//Tommy Wallach
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When he emerges from the bathroom she is awake, propped up against the pillows and flicking through the travel brochures that were beside his bed.
Me Before You//Jojo Moyes
#Me Before You#Jojo Moyes#first sentence#it kinda looks like the modern Beauty and the Beast I've always been waiting for
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She didn't want to be a beauty queen, but as luck would have it, she was about to become one.
Funny Girl//Nick Hornby
#Funny Girl#Nick Hornby#first sentence#Nick what kind of opening line is this#what is this book even about
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Three hundred and forty-eight years, six months, and nineteen days ago, the good people of Paris awoke to the sound of the bells leaking in the three districts of the Cité, the Université, and the Ville.
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame//Victor Hugo
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