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Index of First Lines
no. 1 - I once lost a wrestling match with a lion, vying before a king...
no. 2 - I was in love with a famous actress...
no. 3 - Every liar must keep separate...
no. 4 - The children could hear him pacing on the floorboards above their...
no. 5 - All the storefronts were glass...
no. 6 - I hid from my enemies for a decade, in a small town...
no. 7 - He had been standing in the yard for at least an hour...
no. 8 - And while it had seemed all right at first, it soon became obvious...
no. 9 - He was beside himself on the stairs...
no. 10 - Everyone would be home soon, and obviously, quite obviously...
no. 11 - Inside the stove, he found a passageway...
no. 12 - Oh the lovely confusion of language...
no. 13 - A heartless day today...
no. 14 - And what of the chance meeting...
no. 15 - To those who hate me - do you know me well...
no. 16 - And when we were angry...
no. 17 - And what could it mean? The servants...
no. 18 - He was late to the party, had intended to be there, was...
no. 19 - My dreams have been...
no. 20 - Pale faces leer from long closed closets...
no. 21 - There was bread in a basket in the kitchen...
no. 22 - I built that beach with my bare hands...
no. 23 - What bravery said was not true...
no. 24 - I walked out...
no. 25 - There was a passage in a book...
no. 26 - I was approached by several men and asked...
no. 27 - You and I have lived in places, in ways, in cupped...
no. 28 - They called the room the camera, and it was not a...
no. 29 - One day we all woke up to find the seas gone...
no. 30 - This was the month after they'd opened the country...
no. 31 - Regardless of how we felt at the outset...
no. 32 - The mother of my mother's mother...
no. 33 - A bitter cold day, and I, dressed well...
no. 34 - Let us speak of the unreasonable...
no. 35 - I was a master of men in a great wire cage...
no. 36 - Once, I befriended a dying man...
no. 37 - It was funeral season in the village...
no. 38 - Every window facing north...
no. 39 - It was October, and all the birds, mysteriously...
no. 40 - He was led astray over a period of months...
no. 41 - Someone was moving between the fences...
no. 42 - I was sailing in these veins...
no. 43 - Once in Europe, illness led me...
no. 44 - There was a way about me when I came to this town...
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