IN HONOR OF
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
1927-2014 |
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TOP TEN GREATEST BOOK OPENING LINES
What are yours? (Listen).
Here in no particular ranking orde are ours:
- It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. —George Orwell, 1984 (1949)
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. —Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967; trans. Gregory Rabassa)
- Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. —Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877; trans. Constance Garnett)
- Sophie had waited all her life to be kidnapped. - Soman Chainani (2013)
- 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)
- If you really want to hear about it, the 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._ J.D Salinger: The Catcher In The Rye (1951)
- Call me Ishmael._ Herman Melville: Moby-Dick (1851)
- In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. Whenever you feel like criticising any one, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had._ The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book._ Lemony Snicket: A Bad Beginning (1999)
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