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Ava Don't. Blink. Member

Posted One of my favorite blogs asked this question today: What is your favorite opening line of a novel ? This one is certainly up there for me. “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.” - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ------------------------------ "I claim the capacity to doubt." - Herman Wouk ------------------------------- "They warn you about killers and thieves in night I worry about cancer and living right But my mama never warned me about my own Destructive appetite" - Jenny Lewis "Happy"

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Mythos Great wyrm of Toronto Member	Posted Hide Post "It was a pleasure to burn." -- Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 ______________________________ Do not leave me with a bowl of anything for an extended period of time.
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manydjs Member	Posted Hide Post "it begin as a mistake" Charles Bukowski's Post office
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Mr.Push Wigber Member	Posted Hide Post The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. - neuromancer. just doing my duty :P ok. while i'm at it. Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm. - pattern recognition.
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Wayfarer the colours . . . the colours Member	Posted Hide Post I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. Dodie Smith~ I Capture the Castle *** "objective evidence & certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit & dream-visited planet are they found?" William James
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Ava Don't. Blink. Member	Posted Hide Post I love I Capture the Castle!! ------------------------------ "I claim the capacity to doubt." - Herman Wouk ------------------------------- "They warn you about killers and thieves in night I worry about cancer and living right But my mama never warned me about my own Destructive appetite" - Jenny Lewis "Happy"
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Weeble Poster of the year, 2007 Member	Posted Hide Post I can't believe no one has posted this yet: quote: 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. ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ . . ~ Weeble Song! Sing along! ~ courtesy Snazzy Snazzypants
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Giabow Assistant *fwap*er Member	Posted Hide Post "It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened." ~ The Giver by Lois Lowery ******************************** The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not so sure about the turnip. ~~ Terry Pratchett
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Quoth Member	Posted Hide Post "The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed." (Stephen King: The Gunslinger (Dark Tower 1)) I don't even know why... " 'A lovers' spat',(...)'Boy meets girl, girl wants boy dead. An everyday story really.'" - D. Gemmell
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Dweller in Darrkness Administrator/Colporteur Member	Posted Hide Post "There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it." - Voyage of the Dawn Treader "This is what happened." - The Mist __________ AJGraeme "You see, I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking: if you ask for it, I have to let you have it." -Taylor Mali "I am a sexy, shoeless god of war." -Belkar
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Apathy has been eaten by a grue. Member

Posted Hide Post quote: Originally posted by Dweller in Darkness: "There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it." - Voyage of the Dawn Treader yes! I always loved that line. nobody's gonna mention "Call me Ishmael"? tsk. ~ We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But...babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play-world. ~ Elite Special Force Procrastinator, trained in High Arts of Extended Coffee Breaks and Master Linguist of the Water Cooler Conversation

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Giabow Assistant *fwap*er Member	Posted Hide Post "Marley was dead to begin with." ~ A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens ******************************** The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not so sure about the turnip. ~~ Terry Pratchett
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Posted Hide Post in the Dickensy vein: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times." ~ We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But...babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play-world. ~ Elite Special Force Procrastinator, trained in High Arts of Extended Coffee Breaks and Master Linguist of the Water Cooler Conversation

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ZoneSeek Member	Posted Hide Post From memory: "Call me Ishmael." -Melville, Moby-Dick "The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone." -Peter Beagle, The Last Unicorn But the best opening line evar is... "They set a SLAMhound on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the color of his hair." -W. Gibson, Count Zero ~~~~ http://zoneseek.blogspot.com
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Duffy Member	Posted Hide Post I think the first line in Coetzee's Disgrace went something like "I think I've solved the problem of sex rather well." ~~~~ http://duffypriory.blogspot.com/ -- Duffy Priory: my blog. Check out my stories and other writing!!! "Missin' is a part of winnin'" - George Foreman
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Mr.Push Wigber Member	Posted Hide Post a beetle the size of a panel truck was bumping slowly along the shoreline, the baboon beside her was singing, and renie was dying for a cigarette. -otherland. volume 2. river of blue fire. its the first line of chapter 1, even if there are a 100 pages of prologue...
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Boog Member	Posted Hide Post It was the pivotal teaching of Pluthero Quexos, the most celebrated dramatist of the Second Dominion, that in any fiction, no matter how ambitious its scope or profound its theme, there was only ever room for three players. ~~~Barker/Imagica P.s I WANT MY GIBSON BOARD!!!! Bah!~
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His Noodle Girl has no member title Member	Posted Hide Post Awww! Hello Boog! You could write us 200 words in the Flame Wars thread, while you're here __ The brickchewing, camera flaunting restroom saint formerly known as Babylon the Bride
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Boog Member	Posted Hide Post heh...I haven't much flamage....and I am, at work which precludes the time allotted for me to write that much. However, as I now have an account here, I'll prolly start looking around in regards to where I can get in, and of course, where I'll fit in. Bah!~
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His Noodle Girl has no member title Member	Posted Hide Post Well at leat get yourself over into the refugee thread at World's End for a chat. How's things? Oh, um...I'm Babylon the Bride over at the WGB. Sorry. __ The brickchewing, camera flaunting restroom saint formerly known as Babylon the Bride
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