Which author and opening line of a book

[Hunter96]

Fellas,

so for another reason I was searching for some notes and it just realised that as soon as my professor introduced this below line from “L’Etranger” for thought.
“Aujourd’hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas”
It’s just kind of imprinted.though during my analysis I came up lots of things but that’s not the point. The point is which just made a strike and you couldn’t think beyond your on confirmation bias.
So which one you think made you think totally upside down like when you actually realised perception, assumption, reality and emotions have kind of to referent back based on your experience and would is not what you perceive.

Appreciate your Co operation to keep this thread only about books and reading (I m open to more modern thought process)

TIA

 

[kherg007]

Call me Ishmael.
Moby Dick.

 

[MissCroft]

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

 

[onomatopoeia]

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

Nineteen Eighty-Four.

 

[onomatopoeia]

"I always get the shakes before a drop".

 

[Zoot Allures]

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

 

[Insidious Von]

Interesting line Ono, who wrote it?

When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange

 

[onomatopoeia]

Interesting line Ono, who wrote it?

When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange

"When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man."
Confucius say: "Beggars can't be existentialists".

"I always get the shakes before a drop". - the first line of Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers. Someone might also have incorrectly guessed Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, or The Lost Weekend by Charles R. Jackson.

 

[MissCroft]

Someone might also have incorrectly guessed Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, or The Lost Weekend by Charles R. Jackson.

I would have guessed something by Charles Bukowski.

 

[kherg007]

Hmm...so folks are guessing? How's this - easy:
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”

Harder:
"All this happened, more or less."

 

[southpaw]

"I always get the shakes before a drop".

Starship Troopers

 

[onomatopoeia]

Hmm...so folks are guessing? How's this - easy:
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”

Harder:
"All this happened, more or less."

A Tale of Two Cities.

 

[joweeejojo]

The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel.