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Favourite Opening Lines

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Kugai:

"He's a Mad Scientist and I'm his Beautiful Daughter"

Ford Prefect:
"The night was humid."

Inlander:
From A Sentimental Journey, by Laurence Sterne:


--- Quote ---- They order, said I, this matter better in France -
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Of course the same book also has one of the most famous (and, if you read the whole chapter, hilarious) closing lines in English literature:


--- Quote ---So that when I stretch'd out my hand, I caught hold of the Fille de Chambre's
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Actually, come to think of it Tristram Shandy's opening line is pretty good, too:


--- Quote ---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;
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