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100 Best First Lines. American Book Review
14. You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino’s new novel, If on a winter’s night a traveler. —Italo Calvino, If on a winter’s night a traveler (1979; trans. William Weaver)
May 30th
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13. Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested. —Franz Kafka, The Trial (1925; trans. Breon Mitchell)
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11. The Miss Lonelyhearts of the New York Post-Dispatch (Are you in trouble?—Do-you-need-advice?—Write-to-Miss-Lonelyhearts-and-she-will-help-you) sat at his desk and stared at a piece of white cardboard. —Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts (1933)
May 28th
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12. You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name ofThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. —Mark Twain,Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
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Rebelion en la hierba
Paseo bajo castaños centenarios en busca de un rincón tranquilo. Me desplomo sobre un banco de piedra con sentimiento de culpa. Debería de estar en la clínica. Respiro despacio intentando recuperar el aliento. A mi izquierda un oriental consulta un plano y se aleja. Yo me concentro en el cielo tamizado de ramas y en las siluetas menudas que recorren el suelo. Un palomo de pecho henchido gorgojea...
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10. I am an invisible man. —Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)
May 25th
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9. 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. —Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
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8. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. —George Orwell, 1984 (1949)
May 24th
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7. riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. —James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (1939)
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6. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. —Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877; trans. Constance Garnett)
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