American Book Review 100 Best First Lines from Novels

[David Casseres]

And another worthy omission:

"Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead
certainty, even in the midst of chaos."
-- Henry Miller, "Tropic of Capricorn"

On 2/2/06, David Casseres <david.casseres at gmail.com> wrote:
> My first thought was they'd left out one of the best, from Budd
> Schulberg's "What Makes Sammy Run?"  But it turns out to be two
> sentences:
>
> "The first time I saw him he couldn't have been much more than sixteen
> years old, a little ferret of a kid, sharp and quick.  Sammy Glick."
>
> On 2/2/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Yeah, that was soon enough pointed out to me.  I went
> > scanning for it, but maybe didn't expect it so high
> > up.  Have yet to have time to make note even of the
> > top 10, so ...
> >
> > But also note No. 23 ...
> >
> > --- Cathy Edwards <Cathy.Edwards at theppc.com> wrote:
> >
> > > That's there, number 15.
> >
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