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First Sentence: Greg Jackson
Greg Jackson
‘I am being, I believe, about as forthright as I am being coy.’
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A Confession
Jess Row
‘I walk out of the theatre in a daze. I’ve glimpsed something. But a glimpse, as it turns out, is not enough.’
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White Men’s Boats
Giles Foden
‘Deo Gratias stood on the deck of the Liemba with his prisoners at his feet. I leaned on the rail, studiously casual.’
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New World (Part One)
Jonathan Raban
‘At first sight the ship was bigger than the dock in which it floated, a whale sprawled in a hip-bath‘.
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Lady Max
Paul Theroux
‘I went to my study and opened my notebook and read: Shafts of sunlight filled with brilliant flakes falling through the green leaves to the jungle floor – which was where I had left off yesterday to write my book review and go to Gaston's.’
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When Skateboards Will Be Free
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
‘My mother and father believe that the United States is destined one day to be engulfed in a socialist revolution.’
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Antediluvian
John Biguenet
‘To the inexperienced, hurricane stories always sound like exaggerations.’
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The French Lieutenant’s Diary
John Fowles
‘It was really just one visual idea: a woman standing at the end of the Cobb and staring mysteriously out to sea.’
