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All posts tagged
opening-lines
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March 22, 2022First Drafts of the Greatest Opening Sentences in Literature
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September 5, 2019Famous Opening Lines Rewritten for Back-to-School Time
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June 13, 2019Famous Opening Lines: On Fleek
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January 21, 2015Opposite Opening Lines to Famous Novels
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June 15, 2011Famous Opening Lines from Novels Updated for the Modern Age
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March 18, 2010Opening Lines from an Ill-Humored Comedian of the 18th Century
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February 8, 2007Opening Sentences to A Tale of Two Cities Rejected by Dickens Before He Settled on “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …”
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January 14, 2005Actual Opening Lines Used on Me by Business-to-Business Telemarketers
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June 6, 2004Five Rejected Opening Lines for the CBS Evening News in New York
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March 10, 2025As an American Jew, I Feel Completely Reassured for My Safety Now That Trump Has Targeted the Epicenter of American Antisemitism, Columbia University
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March 6, 2025Killing Baby Boomers Will Save the United States Government Trillions
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March 5, 2025Short Conversations with Poets: Dong Li
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March 7, 2025Happy National Women’s Day from the White House
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March 14, 2025A Memorandum from the Newly Established Department of Grammar Efficiency
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March 14, 2025Excerpts from The Believer: An Interview with Michael Smith
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March 14, 2025Nothing Stands Between Us Teachers and the Brainwashing of America’s Children, Except This Beef Jerky in the Pencil Sharpener
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March 13, 2025It’s a Shame We Have to Betray Our Allies, Starve the Poor, Halt Scientific Progress, Destroy the Environment, and Eliminate the Freedoms Enshrined in the Bill of Rights, but at Least My Investment Portfolio Is Also Tanking