Latest posts tagged with #greatlines on Bluesky
"Obviously there are many great first lines in the world, there’s your first line of coke — which may or may not have been off a hooker’s ass if you are Donald Trump"
#greatlines #writing #listicle #firstlinesofbooks #books #clever #witty #snortcokeofunsanitarythings
"You know, dull tools are much more dangerous than sharp ones."
#greatlines #readmorebooks
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I.G Greatest Lines n. 2892: A tie between
"Alan Moore, a.k.a Stoned Rasputin"
And
"George R.R Martin a.k.a Sadist Claus"
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Illuminati Ganga greatest lines delivery en route!!!
#comics #lines #greatlines #wooo #fight #writing
alright y'all show me your greatest lines being delivered!
"You wanna be a writer *and* you want to jump off a bridge? That's pretty much the same thing, no? A writer just takes longer to hit the water." #greatlines
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Let's hear it, writers. What is the most powerful, hilarious, or heartbreaking line of dialogue you've ever read or heard?
I'll start with a classic: 'Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.'
Your turn!
#Dialogue #GreatLines #WritingCommunity
To study history then is to reckon with the great disparity between the world as it has been and the world as we might like it to be.
#CometoThisCourt&Cry, #LindaKinstler #BookSky #history #literature #greatlines
Great line in Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions by @edwardzwick.bsky.social “There are only two kinds of movies: forgettable or memorable.” #greatlines #movies #filmmaking #film #booksaboutmovies
#GreatLines from #Middlegradelit
"The landscape seemed to nleed shadows." -Brian Farrey, The Secret of Dreadwillow Carse
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#writersky
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#GreatLines from #MiddleGradeLit
"Ganwar's words lie in my lap like huge rocks I am not strong enough to move." - Katherine Applegate, Home of the Brave
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#inspiration
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I love Babylon5.
I have, on occasion, referenced this line in real life.
#babylon5 #londomalari #greatlines #moonfacedassassinofjoy
Image of white text against a black background contains the following book quote: “Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again." "Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?" "Yes. I want to ruin you." "Good," I said. "That's what I want too.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
"Why, we used to laugh together
and we"d dance to any old song
Well, you know, she stills laughs with me
But she waits just a second too long"
Thank you, John Prine
#greatlines
...The old house out on Merrily Road certainly looked the part with its sagging veranda and rotting roof, a withered husk of lichen and dry rot timbers. A storybook mansion fallen into ruin, it reeked of ghosts and secrets."
#greatlines #horror
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if it came to the supreme sacrifice...they supposed they could make it if they had to.
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"The trouble with workin'," Mrs. Rasmussen said, "is you don't have time to set an' just enjoy bein' alive."
Amen, sister.
From Suds in Your Eye by Mary Lasswell
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"...the truth is I have very little to say about books. Almost nothing. I like books sometimes, but I almost never know why. I've learned I don't want to know why. And I certainly don't want to have to *explain* why." - Mike Nagel, Little Engines/The Unintentionalist
#greatlines
"Pie is the American synonym for prosperity and its varying contents the calendar of the changing seasons. Pie is the food of the heroic. No pie-eating people can be permanently vanquished." - New York Times, 1902
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"I didn't have a space and I didn't have any money, but at least no one wanted to work with me." - from Eat a Peach: A Memoir, by David A. Chang
#greatlines
«I'm fat. My mother doesn't approve of dieting.» (Bette Davis in «Now, Voyager», 1942) #OldHollywood #BetteDavis #GreatLines
"He can neither bless nor curse the power that moves him, fire he does not know from where it comes" #GreatLines #TheTenCommandments
"Time is a slippery substance Superman and with it we'll once again give you the slip!"; Lex Luthor; #GreatLines #SuperFriends #DCComics
