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Evan Miller's avatar

Great list. I think the "opening line" one is super underrated, and I love teaching great opening lines to my AP students. It's, in fact, something I'm going to write about in a future post.

Two of the best in my opinion are from Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea: "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."

And from Albert Camus' The Stranger: "Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know."

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Kevin Hwang's avatar

This is gold. Every single item on this list.

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C.S.M.'s avatar

🙏🏻

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C. M. Setledge's avatar

Solid list. A list to bookmark. A list to make into a bookmark.

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C.S.M.'s avatar

🔥

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