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The opening lines of a book are where the reader gets hooked. That is also true for good lists. Since I’ve already blown my chance to make a good first impression I offer up fifteen of the greatest opening lines in literature. They stand alone as sentences but also make you want to read on to discover what else is behind them.
By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek ..... I, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus This-that-and-the-other (for I shall not trouble you yet with all
The time is overdue to look sincere by being sincere, and being sincere means proactive action, not words without thoughts
A walk in the ‘belly button of Wales’, then a pint at an idiosyncratic hotel that hosts bog-snorkelling races
The choice of Cush as the Dane was deemed a 'woke' take on Shakespeare, while others said the actress is 'transfixingly ambiguous, collapsing definitions of gender'