What's the best opening line of any media (book, song, movie, etc.)?

justachillbro · 3 months

It was a pleasure to burn. -Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

Del_Felesif · 3 months

"Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know."

but_its_eleven · 3 months

NAAAAAAAANTS INGONYAMAAAAA BAGITHI BABAAAAA

-The Lion King.

Arathor226 · 3 months

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like 'I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive . . .' And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. And a voice was screaming, 'Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?'"

-- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson

StochasticOoze · 3 months

Ooh, or this one:

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

-- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, by Douglas Adams.

StochasticOoze · 3 months

"All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

-- Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy.

bonochromatic · 3 months

"All this happened, more or less."

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

I_Grow_Tired_of_This · 3 months

"I was born a poor black child..."

ClaytonMagnet · 3 months

"What came first, the music or the misery?

People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos... that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss.

Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?"

-High Fidelity

Boolderdash · 3 months

“Proper story’s supposed to start at the beginning. Ain’t so simple with this one."

-- Bastion

You don't get the full meaning of that until close to the end of the game.

Freakears · 3 months

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."

-The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien (as if you needed reminding)

GrammarNerd · 3 months

"It was love at first sight." - Catch-22, Joseph Heller

"Are you watching closely?" - The Prestige

John_Fx · 3 months

Of course, from Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy"....

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

Conchobair · 3 months

The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it. It began with the forging of the Great Rings.

ResoL101 · 3 months

"Saigon...SHIT"

Mubutu · 3 months

Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No."

-Rorschach, Watchmen, by Alan Moore

drummerx357 · 3 months

"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."

-Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

Mylaptopisburningme · 3 months

There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim and we sat in the Korova milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova Milk Bar sold milkplus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence. -Clockwork Orange

red321red321 · 3 months

"As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. To me, being a gangster was better than being President of the United States."

Henry Hill, Goodfellas

strangelyliteral · 3 months

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita."

Such a cruel, fucked-up book, but it still has the most magical opening and closing lines I've ever read.

red321red321 · 3 months

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

George Orwell, 1984

JacksSmirkingRevenge · 3 months

"My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My parents to be were on the same plane when it crashed. That's how they met. They named me after the name of the plane. Not many people are named after a plane crash. That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but I know he was really named after a famous 19th century ballet dancer."

from Snatch

John_Fx · 3 months

"John Dies at the End" Novel by David Wong

Best opening to a book, ever...

Solving the following riddle will reveal the awful secret behind the universe, assuming you do not go utterly mad in the attempt. If you already happen to know the awful secret behind the universe, feel free to skip ahead.

Let’s say you have an ax. Just a cheap one, from Home Depot. On one bitter winter day, you use said ax to behead a man. Don’t worry, the man was already dead. Or maybe you should worry, because you’re the one who shot him.

He had been a big, twitchy guy with veiny skin stretched over swollen biceps, a tattoo of a swastika on his tongue. Teeth filed into razor-sharp fangs, you know the type. And you’re chopping off his head because, even with eight bullet holes in him, you’re pretty sure he’s about to spring back to his feet and eat the look of terror right off your face. On the follow-through of the last swing, though, the handle of the ax snaps in a spray of splinters. You now have a broken ax. So, after a long night of looking for a place to dump the man and his head, you take a trip into town with your ax. You go to the hardware store, explaining away the dark reddish stains on the broken handle as barbecue sauce. You walk out with a brand new handle for your ax.

The repaired ax sits undisturbed in your garage until the next spring when, on one rainy morning, you find in your kitchen a creature that appears to be a foot-long slug with a bulging egg sac on its tail. Its jaws bite one of your forks in half with what seems like very little effort. You grab your trusty ax and chop the thing into several pieces. On the last blow, however, the ax strikes a metal leg of the overturned kitchen table and chips out a notch right in the middle of the blade.

Of course, a chipped head means yet another trip to the hardware store. They sell you a brand new head for your ax. As soon as you get home with your newly-headed ax, though, you meet the reanimated body of the guy you beheaded last year. He’s also got a new head, stitched on with what looks like plastic weed trimmer line, and it’s wearing that unique expression of “you’re the man who killed me last winter” resentment that one so rarely encounters in everyday life.

You brandish your ax. The guy takes a long look at the weapon with his squishy, rotting eyes and in a gargly voice he screams, “That’s the same ax that slayed me!”

Is he right?

Natekatdeluxe · 3 months

"A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now." - "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon

Tavish_Degroot · 3 months

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

dropdeadfreddidit · 3 months

"Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost." -The Inferno

EltonJuan · 3 months

Trainspotting:

"Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin can openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life . . . But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?"

I know there are the classic films and books and plays, but I'd never been this pumped in the first minute quite like this.

zoomah · 3 months

Perhaps this is a bit beyond the scope of the question, but I absolutely love the prologue to The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

A Silence of Three Parts

IT WAS NIGHT AGAIN. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.

The most obvious part was a hollow, echoing quiet, made by things that were lacking. If there had been a wind it would have sighed through the trees, set the inn’s sign creaking on its hooks, and brushed the silence down the road like trailing autumn leaves. If there had been a crowd, even a handful of men inside the inn, they would have ﬁlled the silence with conversation and laughter, the clatter and clamour one expects from a drinking house during the dark hours of night. If there had been music . . . but no, of course there was no music. In fact there were none of these things, and so the silence remained.

Inside the Waystone a pair of men huddled at one corner of the bar. They drank with quiet determination, avoiding serious discussions of troubling news. In doing this they added a small, sullen silence to the larger, hollow one. It made an alloy of sorts, a counterpoint.

The third silence was not an easy thing to notice. If you listened for an hour, you might begin to feel it in the wooden ﬂoor underfoot and in the rough, splintering barrels behind the bar. It was in the weight of the black stone hearth that held the heat of a long-dead ﬁre. It was in the slow back and forth of a white linen cloth rubbing along the grain of the bar. And it was in the hands of the man who stood there, polishing a stretch of mahogany that already gleamed in the lamplight.

The man had true-red hair, red as ﬂame. His eyes were dark and distant, and he moved with the subtle certainty that comes from knowing many things.

The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-ﬂower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

smallbutmighty · 3 months

All children grow up. Except one. -Peter Pan

maecat2011 · 3 months

"Space. It seems to go on and on forever.. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you" -- Pilot Episode of Futurama

srideout · 3 months

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.

andrewsmith1986 · 3 months

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

-Neuromancer

randomhobo · 3 months

"I've been to prison once. I've been married twice. I was once drafted by Lyndon Johnson and had to live in shit-ass Mexico for two and a half years for no reason.

I've had my eye socket punched in, a kidney taken out, and I got a bone chip in my ankle that's never gonna heal.

I've seen some pretty shitty situations in my life. But nothing has ever sucked more ass than this.

If I'd known I was gonna have to put up with screaming brats pissing on my lap for days out of the year, I would have killed myself a long time ago.

Come to think of it, I still might."

-Bad Santa

ac91 · 3 months

I cast my vote for the opening line of "The Godfather", delivered by Bonasera the undertaker, asking for a favor from Don Corleone after his daughter has been beaten and raped— "I beieve in America." Such a simple line, but it conveys the underlying theme of the trilogy, which is that America is the only country in the world where you can shape yourself into whatever you want to be, good or bad.

STD-fense · 3 months

"Everywhere I go people ask me if I know Tyler Durden."

Fight Club

MusikLehrer · 3 months

"Nice tits, bitch"

from the opening of Thankskilling

MeetMeAtThePub · 3 months

The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.

IfYouCanDodgeAWrench · 3 months

"I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on, you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be 'Sir!' Do you maggots understand this?"

-Full Metal Jacket

Frost_ · 3 months

Ahhh... There are so many good ones, so I shall offer a few.

The favourite of the day is tragically close to my own sleeping patterns at the moment. Still, a wonderful start for a story.

Mr Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he stayed up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.

-- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

I think the absolutely best beginnings are from Kafka, though. Because I couldn't really choose between these two, I'll present you with both:

As Gregor Samsa awoke from a night of uneasy dreaming, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

-- Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

-- Franz Kafka, The Trial

And lastly, the one that always makes me guffaw:

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

-- C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Nkliph · 3 months

Opening from Mallrats:

"One time my cousin Walter got this cat stuck up his ass. True story. He bought it at our local mall, so the whole fiasco wound up on the news. It was embarassing for my relatives and all, but the next week he did it again! Different cat, same results, complete with another trip to the emergency room. So I run into him a week later in the mall and he's buying another cat, and I says to him 'Jesus Walt, what are you doing? You know you're just going to get this cat stuck up your ass too, why don't you knock it off?' And he said to me, 'Brodie, how the hell else am I supposed to get the gerbil out?' My cousin was a wierd guy."

bruisedwayne · 3 months

"You've been here before."

Needful Things by Stephen King. I don't know about best, but it kind of made me...jump? Or caught me off guard or whatever.

georgie_b · 3 months

"There must be some kind of way out of here..."

Jaraarph · 3 months

No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space.

Musical War of the Worlds

dArN0k · 3 months

"My name is Lester Burnham. This is my neighborhood. This is my street. This is my life. I’m 42 years old. In less than a year, I’ll be dead. Of course, I don’t know that yet, and in a way, I’m dead already. Look at me, jerking off in the shower. This will be the high point of my day. It’s all downhill from here. That’s my wife Carolyn. See the way the handle on those pruning shears matches her gardening clogs? That’s not an accident. That’s our next door neighbor, Jim, and that’s his lover, Jim. Man, I get exhausted just watching her. She wasn’t always like this. She used to be happy. We used to be happy. My daughter, Jane. Only child. Janie’s a pretty typical teenager. Angry, insecure, confused. I wish I could tell her that’s all going to pass, but I don’t want to lie to her. Both my wife and daughter think I’m this gigantic loser. And they’re right. I have lost something. I’m not exactly sure what, but I know I didn’t always feel this sedated. But you know what? It’s never too late to get it back."

American Beauty

ryannayr140 · 3 months

"Teen drinking is very bad... yo i got a fake id tho"
Song: Chingy - Everybody in the Club Gettin' Tipsy http://youtu.be/zGUwafCcL2M

wbeville · 3 months

Where's Papa going with that ax? Charlotte's Web

Malgayne · 3 months

"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."

Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C. S. Lewis

pupetman64 · 3 months

"Hello, I'm Johnny Cash."

Opening line of Folsom Prison Blues, the first track on At Folsom Prison.

allyouneedisredbull · 3 months

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again" Rebecca- Daphne Du Maurier

ConAirOnVHS · 3 months

"Rise and shine, Mr. Freeman. Rise...and shine."

Half-Life 2, for those of you who haven't played it. I'm actually not a huge fan of the game as a whole, but the intro, up until around when you leave Kleiner's lab, is amazing.

pmanly · 3 months

"Maman (Mom) died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours. That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday."

From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus. This may seem cruel and heartless, but once you've read the book, you'll find it completely relevant. Great read about existentialism.

gjallard · 3 months

Call me Ishmael.

Beeftech67 · 3 months

"If you're going to read this. Don't bother. After a couple of pages, you won't want to be here. So forget it. Go away. Get out while you're still in one piece. Save yourself. There has to be something better on Television. Or since you have so much time on your hands, maybe you could take a night course. Become a doctor."

-Choke, by Chuck Palahniuk. It goes on for about another paragraph...pretty awesome.

sticktothecraithur · 3 months

"Pistol shots rang out in the barroom night...

Bob Dylan, Hurricane

jackelfrink · 3 months

It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to show by this statement that I am not his murderer.

The Thing on the Doorstep - H.P. Lovecraft

Letherneck · 3 months

The president has been kidnapped by ninjas, are you a bad eanough dude to save him?

heartmindcock · 3 months

"I am a sick man...I am a wicked man. An unattractive man, I think my liver hurts."

--Notes from the Underground, by Dostoevsky.

databasestate · 3 months

"Love? Love is a verb. Love is a doing word, fearless on my breath."

Teardrop, by Massive Attack

Guneration2 · 3 months

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

The Outsiders

[deleted] · 3 months

''Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,

Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,

Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,

One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne,

In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie,

One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them,

One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.''

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

gmac1994 · 3 months

"Whenever you feel like critizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had th advantages you've had."-The Great Gatsby

red321red321 · 3 months

Lloyd Christmas: Excuse me, can you tell me how to get to the medical school? I'm supposed to be giving a lecture in twenty minutes and my driver's a bit lost.

Hot Woman: Go straight aheads and makes a left over za bridge.

Lloyd Christmas: I couldn't help noticing the accent. New Jersey?

Hot Woman: Austria.

Lloyd Christmas: Austria? You're kidding. Well, g'day, mate. Let's throw another shrimp on the barbie.

Hot Woman: Let's not.

Dumb and Dumber

GeckoRoamin · 3 months

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prevori · 3 months

I really like "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times". Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.

HoovesCarveCraters · 3 months

"What's it going to be then, eh?"

--A Clockwork Orange

zach2093 · 3 months

"This is a story of a wealthy family who lost everything and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together."

-Arrested Development

TheMostModestofMice · 3 months

""Unless suffering is the direct and immediate object of life, our existence must entirely fail of its aim."- Arthur Schopenhaur "Studies in Pessimism"

EradiKate · 3 months

Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.

Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

con42scientist · 3 months

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."

shoshiyoshi · 3 months

"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number 4, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."

Calmiche · 3 months

"Marley was dead: to begin with..."

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

Easily the best opening line ever.

southernatheist · 3 months

"In West Philadelphia, born and raised..." --Fresh Prince of Bel Air

The_Insurance · 3 months

My name is Walter Hartwell White, I live at 308 Negro Arroyo Lane, Albuquerque New Mexico, 87104. To all Law Enforcement Agencies, this is not an admission of guilt.

I am speaking to my family now.

Skyler, you are the love of my life. I hope you know that.

Walter Jr... you're my big man.

There are... There are going to be some things, things that you'll come to learn about me in the next few days. I just want you to know that, no matter how it may look, I only had you in my heart.

Goodbye.

cigarettegarden · 3 months

"I did not mean to sodomize Dick Cheney."

guraqt06 · 3 months

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, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

kresblain · 3 months

Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine.

refreshinglyalert · 3 months

“Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of Buenos Aires, aged twenty-five years two months and twelve days." —P.D. James, The Children of Men

thunderling · 3 months

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

EDIT: I take it back. This one is much better. "It was a dark and stormy night."

RX_queen · 3 months

The Unbearable Lightness of Being's first page and some - I guess it's sort of the first chapter - is gorgeous. Actually, that whole book is.

Prohairesis · 3 months

Layer Cake

english06 · 3 months

"'I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.'" - Ender's Game

MrDNL · 3 months

The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house all that cold, cold, wet day.

-- The Bible.

red321red321 · 3 months

"a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..."

Star Wars

HoodratSht · 3 months

"When there's nothing left to burn, you must set yourself on fire." -Your Ex Lover is Dead by Stars

paralacausa · 3 months

"I like big butts and I cannot lie," Sir Mix-A-Lot.

disharmonia · 3 months

"The unicorn lived in a lilac wood and she lived all alone."

The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle

PhatSoxx · 3 months

"Rise and shine, Mr. Freeman. Rise and shine. Not that I wish to imply you have been sleeping on the job. No-one is more deserving of a rest. And all the effort in the world would have gone to waste until... well, let's just say your hour has come again. The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world. So, wake up, Mr. Freeman. Wake up and smell the ashes." from Half Life 2

beretsandberettas · 3 months

"If the boy was not the word of God, then God never spoke."

GodEmperorBrian · 3 months

Way out west there was this fella... fella I wanna tell ya about. Fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least that was the handle his loving parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. Mr. Lebowski, he called himself "The Dude". Now, "Dude" - that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place so darned interestin'. They call Los Angeles the "City Of Angels." I didn't find it to be that, exactly. But I'll allow there are some nice folks there. 'Course I can't say I've seen London, and I ain't never been to France. And I ain't never seen no queen in her damned undies, so the feller says. But I'll tell you what - after seeing Los Angeles, and this here story I'm about to unfold, well, I guess I seen somethin' every bit as stupefyin' as you'd see in any of them other places. And in English, too. So I can die with a smile on my face, without feelin' like the good Lord gypped me. Now this here story I'm about to unfold took place back in the early '90s - just about the time of our conflict with Sad'm and the I-raqis. I only mention it because sometimes there's a man... I won't say a hero, 'cause, what's a hero? But sometimes, there's a man. And I'm talkin' about the Dude here. Sometimes, there's a man, well, he's the man for his time and place. He fits right in there. And that's the Dude, in Los Angeles. And even if he's a lazy man - and the Dude was most certainly that. Quite possibly the laziest in Los Angeles County, which would place him high in the runnin' for laziest worldwide. But sometimes there's a man, sometimes, there's a man. Aw. I lost my train of thought here. But... aw, hell. I've done introduced him enough.

The Stranger - The Big Lebowski

xsoban · 3 months

The Wheel of Time turns, and ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the age that gave it birth comes again. - The Wheel of time series by Robert Jordan

dronezero · 3 months

"There are nights when I think that Sal Paradise was right, boys and girls in America, they have such a sad time together"

-The Hold Steady, Boys and Girls In America

Sam_Geist · 3 months

"The storm had broken."

-Magician, Raymond E. Feist.

I really like how it sets a scene so effortlessly. I am biased though, as this is one of my favourite fantasy books and probably the first epic fantasy I read after The Lord of the Rings when I was eight or nine.

AintNoCrimeToRhyme · 3 months

"Being alone, it can be quite romantic - Like Jacques Cousteau underneath the Atlantic, a fantastic voyage to parts unknown, going to depths where the sun's never shone, and I fascinate myself...When I'm alone"

qukler · 3 months

Actually it's not opening or ending. It is full story: For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn. Ernest Hemingway

says_the_obvious · 3 months

The intro to Money for Nothing by Dire Straits

IlikeHistory · 3 months

Movie Assasination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford intro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUB0f0qXhxs

i will post half of the intro

" He had two incompletely healed bullet holes in his chest and another in his thigh. He was missing the nub of his left middle finger and was cautious, lest that mutilation be seen. He also had a condition that was referred to as "granulated eyelids" and it caused him to blink more than usual as if he found creation slightly more than he could accept. Rooms seemed hotter when he was in them. Rains fell straighter. Clocks slowed. Sounds were amplified. He considered himself a Southern loyalist and guerrilla in a Civil War that never ended. He regretted neither his robberies, nor the seventeen murders that he laid claim to. He had seen another summer under in Kansas City, Missouri and on September 5th in the year 1881, he was thirty-four-years-old. "

gallbladder895 · 3 months

"When I was five I killed myself"

Lost_Secret · 3 months

Book: Paradise : "They shoot the white girl first."

sawatdee_Krap · 3 months

Submitting to a well commented thread, but didn't see this and it should be here:

(Discussing a drug addict who was just murdered, his body lies a few feet away. Detective Jimmy McNulty talkes with a witness who knew the victim who was known as Snotboogie.)

Witness: "Every friday night we'd get a game of shoot going, and when the pot got deep Snot would grab the pot and run. If we'd catch him we'd beat his ass, but nothing like this." McNulty: "I gotta ask you, if every time Snotboogie would grab the money and run away, why'd you even let him in the game." Witness: "Got to, this is America Man."

Sums up the entire theme of the show. The idea that the American dream is different for each person in the show. And each of them has a right to go for it. People are going to try and stop them, some might die trying, but they all have the right. It's the balance, the good and the bad, the just and the unjust, there are no winners and losers by our rules.

WarPhalange · 3 months

War. War never changes.

--Fallout

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