The Believer Magazine
All posts tagged
opening-lines
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March 22, 2022First Drafts of the Greatest Opening Sentences in Literature
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September 5, 2019Famous Opening Lines Rewritten for Back-to-School Time
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June 13, 2019Famous Opening Lines: On Fleek
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January 21, 2015Opposite Opening Lines to Famous Novels
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June 15, 2011Famous Opening Lines from Novels Updated for the Modern Age
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March 18, 2010Opening Lines from an Ill-Humored Comedian of the 18th Century
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February 8, 2007Opening Sentences to A Tale of Two Cities Rejected by Dickens Before He Settled on “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …”
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January 14, 2005Actual Opening Lines Used on Me by Business-to-Business Telemarketers
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June 6, 2004Five Rejected Opening Lines for the CBS Evening News in New York
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January 15, 2025A Marriage Proposal Spoken Entirely in Office Jargon
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January 8, 2025Did You Even Consider Every Possible Lived Experience Before Recklessly Posting Your Chili Recipe on Social Media?
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January 9, 2025I Will Pay Any Amount to Not Pay My Taxes
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January 15, 2025Signs You Are a Gen-Xer Who’s About to Turn Sixty
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January 20, 2025Welcome Home, President Nyarlathotep
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January 17, 2025Who Said It: Donald Trump or Martin Luther King Jr.?
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January 17, 2025Excerpts from The Believer: An Interview with Annie Leibovitz
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January 17, 2025It’s About Time Our Government Finally Reflects the Real America—An Airport Terminal at 10 a.m. on a Weekday