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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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November 29, 2023Your 2023 WebMD Wrapped
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December 4, 2023The National Lyrics or Things My Dad Says While Refusing to Check Google Maps?
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February 23, 2012Lines from The Princess Bride That Double as Comments on Freshman Composition Papers
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December 7, 2023Scenes from a Hallmark Hanukkah Movie Written by Someone Who Has Definitely Met a Jew
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December 11, 2023We Are Wirecutter, and Last Winter We Sent Eighty-Six Reporters to Test Fifteen Hundred Artificial Christmas Trees. Twelve Haven’t Returned
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December 11, 2023Everything a Barber Could Do During a Haircut Before I Speak Up
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December 8, 2023Inflation Is High, So I’m Voting for Gork the Merciless