# Favorite First Lines

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-first-lines/466882>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 7, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-first-lines/466882 "2008-10-07T18:48:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-first-lines/466882/61 "2008-10-08T19:07:54Z")

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"This is the most beautiful place on Earth; there are many such places.

Edward Abbey: _Desert Solitaire_

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**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-first-lines/466882/62 "2008-10-08T19:08:38Z")

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Only because I just watched it again this morning:

“I belong to the church of Baseball.”

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**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-first-lines/466882/63 "2008-10-08T20:46:33Z")

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“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”  
“The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.”  
Not the first lines of Sin City, but the opening scene has always stuck with me as a wonderful beginning:

I tell her that everything will be alright  
That I’ll save her from whatever she’s scared of and take her far far away  
I tell her… I love her  
The silencer makes a whisper of the gunshot  
I hold her close until she’s gone  
I’ll never know what she’s running from  
I’ll cash her check in the morning

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**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2008, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-first-lines/466882/64 "2008-10-08T23:19:48Z")

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When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini’s _The Theiving Magpie_, which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta.

Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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