Famous First Sentences

"If you wanted to get rich, how would you do it?" From "How to Make Wealth" by @paulg paulgraham.com/wealth.html

A gentleman and a lady traveling from Tunbridge towards that part of the Sussex coast which lies between Hastings and Eastbourne, being induced by business to quit the high road and attempt a very rough lane, were overturned in toiling up its long ascent, half rock, half sand.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. -- From: Anna Karenina - amzn.to/2X77WqR

“This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.” - amzn.to/3ygMg9p

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"I'm pretty much fucked." From: The Martian by @andyweirauthor amzn.to/3zrn67G

Far Out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. -- From: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - amzn.to/3a8Iy74

A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead. -- From: The End of the Affair - amzn.to/3ksmEl3

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. -- From: Lolita - amzn.to/3nh1YOP

"The world is a very malleable place." simonsarris.substack.com/p/t…

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. -- From: Nineteen Eighty-Four - amzn.to/3jX0PtH

"You were on your way home when you died." From: The Egg, a short story by @andyweirauthor (who also wrote The Martian and Artemis) galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg…

It was the day my grandmother exploded. -- From: The Crow Road - amzn.to/2ZbI9hN

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. -- From: I Capture the Castle - amzn.to/38SmAob

A Treatise on Efficacy, recc by @BlasMoros

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...

"What if I told you about a business with strong network effects and 200x YoY revenue growth that was preparing to offer a 25% dividend and implement a permanent share buyback program?" From @packyM notboring.co/p/own-the-inter…

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. -- From: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream - amzn.to/2X8JxBd

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous insect. -- From: The Metamorphosis - amzn.to/3DTwHr0

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