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Dave B
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Good openings

#1 Post by Dave B » April 20th, 2016, 5:02 pm

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
OK, that's the standard one evetyone thinks of, but there are more.

Indulging in my usual habit, when visiting town, I bought a 2nd hand book, this one on the art and life August Rodin, and then went to my favourite lunch place to look through it.

I really liked the opening lines:
Neighbourhoods are like human beings. They are born, grow up, become handsome or ugly, change their outward appearance and age without forfeiting their personality. The same spirit lives on in them. Rodin first saw the light of day in Mouffetard, a motley quarter prone to public tumult and rooted in the early history of Paris.
Think I am going to enjoy this book!
"Look forward; yesterday was a lesson, if you did not learn from it you wasted it."
Me, 2015

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