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Opening lines of famous books3/31/2024 ![]() ![]() ![]() (Joseph Epstein, "Duh, Bor-ing." Commentary, June 2011) Unrequited love, as Lorenz Hart instructed us, is a bore, but then so are a great many other things: old friends gone somewhat dotty from whom it is too late to disengage, the important social-science-based book of the month, 95 percent of the items on the evening news, discussions about the Internet, arguments against the existence of God, people who overestimate their charm, all talk about wine, New York Times editorials, lengthy lists (like this one), and, not least, oneself.(David James Duncan, "Cherish This Ecstasy." The Sun, July 2008) The peregrine falcon was brought back from the brink of extinction by a ban on DDT, but also by a peregrine falcon mating hat invented by an ornithologist at Cornell University.(Reshma Memon Yaqub, "The Washing." The Washington Post Magazine, March 21, 2010) But sometimes you just get caught up in the moment. ![]()
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