Best First Lines
- Beskrivelse
- Novels that have excellent or memorable first lines. Started from American Book Review's 100 Best First Lines from Novels (http://americanbookreview.org/100bestlines.asp)
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af Jane Austen
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 12:07 PM
- 5 Members
- Aquila, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
2
af C. S. Lewis
25,466 medlemmer
258 anmeldelser
4
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:25 PM
- 6 Members
- Aquila, hipdeep, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it
3
94,607 medlemmer
1,189 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
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Tilføjet 2022-06-17, 01:24 PM
4
af Dodie Smith
9,218 medlemmer
294 anmeldelser
4.1
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:45 PM
- 5 Members
- Aquila, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
5
82,129 medlemmer
1,274 anmeldelser
4.2
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 12:10 PM
- 5 Members
- Aquila, hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
6
36,738 medlemmer
455 anmeldelser
3.9
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 12:10 PM
- 5 Members
- Aquila, hipdeep, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: 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.
7
af Ray Bradbury
54,041 medlemmer
999 anmeldelser
4
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:28 PM
- 5 Members
- hipdeep, merrystar, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: It was a pleasure to burn.
8
24,896 medlemmer
530 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
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Tilføjet 2022-06-17, 01:22 PM
9
24,753 medlemmer
526 anmeldelser
4.1
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Tilføjet 2022-06-17, 01:21 PM
10
af Mark Twain
43,079 medlemmer
520 anmeldelser
3.9
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:09 PM
- 4 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.
11
44,082 medlemmer
706 anmeldelser
4.1
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:21 PM
- 4 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: All this happened, more or less.
12
20,786 medlemmer
613 anmeldelser
4.2
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Tilføjet 2022-06-17, 01:21 PM
13
19,175 medlemmer
346 anmeldelser
4
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:24 PM
- 4 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.
14
44,485 medlemmer
697 anmeldelser
4.2
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 12:08 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: 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.
15
af Leo Tolstoy
38,541 medlemmer
630 anmeldelser
4.1
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 12:09 PM
- 3 Members
- Aquila, hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
16
35,650 medlemmer
543 anmeldelser
3.8
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 12:07 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: Call me Ishmael.
17
9,792 medlemmer
433 anmeldelser
3.9
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Tilføjet 2022-06-16, 10:51 AM
- 2 Members
- ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- ManWithAnAgenda: No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.
18
69,642 medlemmer
1,081 anmeldelser
3.8
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:11 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: 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.
19
af Sylvia Plath
28,151 medlemmer
503 anmeldelser
4
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:38 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
20
15,961 medlemmer
384 anmeldelser
4
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Tilføjet 2022-06-17, 05:58 PM
21
7,679 medlemmer
113 anmeldelser
3.9
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:13 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly considered how much depended upon what they were then doing;—that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind;—and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost:—Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,—I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that, in which the reader is likely to see me.
22
72,311 medlemmer
1,170 anmeldelser
3.8
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:37 PM
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- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
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- aethercowboy: In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
23
af James Joyce
21,246 medlemmer
216 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:12 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo.
24
20,718 medlemmer
276 anmeldelser
4.1
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:14 PM
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- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
25
30,553 medlemmer
451 anmeldelser
4.1
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:17 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing.
26
22,889 medlemmer
408 anmeldelser
3.9
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:17 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: 124 was spiteful.
27
af J. M. Barrie
18,976 medlemmer
326 anmeldelser
3.9
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Tilføjet 2022-06-17, 11:29 PM
28
af Albert Camus
35,565 medlemmer
507 anmeldelser
3.9
Giv stjerner til dine bøger 5.34
Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:17 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: Mother died today.
29
4,794 medlemmer
115 anmeldelser
3.8
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:12 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: This is the saddest story I have ever heard.
30
af Jean Rhys
8,479 medlemmer
254 anmeldelser
½ 3.5
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:54 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.
31
9,510 medlemmer
214 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:24 PM
- 3 Members
- Aquila, aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
32
7,919 medlemmer
168 anmeldelser
4
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Tilføjet 2022-06-17, 01:23 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- hipdeep: Taran wanted to make a sword, but Coll, charged with the practical side of his education, decided on horseshoes.
33
10,737 medlemmer
243 anmeldelser
4
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:52 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: In the town, there were two mutes and they were always together.
34
af Pat Conroy
5,829 medlemmer
108 anmeldelser
4.1
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Tilføjet 2022-06-16, 10:51 AM
- 2 Members
- ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- ManWithAnAgenda: My wound is geography.
35
af Alice Walker
19,778 medlemmer
335 anmeldelser
4.1
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:37 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: You better not never tell nobody but God.
36
20,686 medlemmer
330 anmeldelser
3.9
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:21 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.
37
6,240 medlemmer
116 anmeldelser
4.1
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:31 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: I have never begun a novel with more misgiving.
38
6,546 medlemmer
170 anmeldelser
3.9
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:28 PM
- 3 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: 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.
39
af Daniel Defoe
23,269 medlemmer
323 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:29 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho' not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull; He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, whose Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family in that Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call our selves, and write our Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call'd me.
40
af George Eliot
17,749 medlemmer
331 anmeldelser
4.2
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:30 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
41
12,062 medlemmer
140 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:37 PM
- 3 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: "To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die."
42
23,092 medlemmer
379 anmeldelser
3.9
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:18 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
43
1,752 medlemmer
55 anmeldelser
4
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:51 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
44
31,745 medlemmer
563 anmeldelser
4.1
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 12:09 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.
45
26,518 medlemmer
400 anmeldelser
4
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Tilføjet 2022-06-17, 11:01 PM
46
775 medlemmer
33 anmeldelser
½ 3.4
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:09 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: The Miss Lonelyhearts of the New York Post-Dispatch (Are you in trouble?—Do-you-need-advice?—Write-to-Miss-Lonelyhearts-and-she-will-help-you) sat at his desk and stared at a piece of white cardboard.
47
af James Joyce
5,339 medlemmer
59 anmeldelser
3.9
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 12:09 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
48
16,211 medlemmer
212 anmeldelser
4
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 12:11 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, aethercowboy
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: I am an invisible man.
49
af Alan Gordon
118 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
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Tilføjet 2022-06-18, 08:45 AM
50
af Franz Kafka
19,918 medlemmer
237 anmeldelser
4
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:10 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.
51
22,030 medlemmer
169 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
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Tilføjet 2022-06-17, 01:22 PM
52
af H. G. Wells
18,455 medlemmer
309 anmeldelser
3.8
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Tilføjet 2022-06-17, 01:23 PM
- 2 Members
- hipdeep, ahef1963
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- hipdeep: No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were being scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
53
12,537 medlemmer
258 anmeldelser
4.1
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:11 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
54
2,329 medlemmer
39 anmeldelser
4
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:44 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
55
560 medlemmer
18 anmeldelser
½ 3.5
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:23 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: Dr. Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.
56
2,350 medlemmer
78 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
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Tilføjet 2022-06-17, 01:23 PM
57
11,008 medlemmer
194 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:15 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
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- aethercowboy: One summer afternoon Mrs. Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to make the job of sorting it all out more than honorary.
58
af James Joyce
24,131 medlemmer
379 anmeldelser
4
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:14 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
59
10,642 medlemmer
174 anmeldelser
3.9
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:53 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
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- aethercowboy: He—for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it—was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.
60
af Paul Auster
1,459 medlemmer
36 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:16 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.
61
17,316 medlemmer
226 anmeldelser
4
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:16 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.
62
14,375 medlemmer
192 anmeldelser
4
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Tilføjet 2022-06-17, 01:22 PM
63
af Franz Kafka
12,516 medlemmer
221 anmeldelser
3.9
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Tilføjet 2022-06-17, 01:32 PM
64
11,158 medlemmer
182 anmeldelser
4.2
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:22 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: For a long time, I went to bed early.
65
30,786 medlemmer
506 anmeldelser
3.8
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:26 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.
66
10,773 medlemmer
141 anmeldelser
4.1
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 12:08 PM
- Member
- aethercowboy
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: A screaming comes across the sky.
67
776 medlemmer
9 anmeldelser
3.8
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Tilføjet 2022-06-16, 10:52 AM
- Member
- ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- ManWithAnAgenda: The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.
68
27,181 medlemmer
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4.1
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:26 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ahef1963
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.
69
9,060 medlemmer
115 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:43 PM
- 2 Members
- aethercowboy, ManWithAnAgenda
- Forklaringer
- aethercowboy: He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull.
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Tilføjet 2022-06-16, 10:51 AM
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:48 PM
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:53 PM
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:55 PM
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:11 PM
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:15 PM
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:18 PM
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:19 PM
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:19 PM
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:20 PM
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:20 PM
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:21 PM
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:22 PM
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Tilføjet 2022-06-15, 01:23 PM
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