the fifty year old virgin….so to speak

There are, without a doubt, several thousand posts just like this one. I imagine anyone that does this looks for a smart way to start, beginning to begin a blog. It is difficult though and at this point I have nothing different, sharp or insightful to post about beginning.

I think I’ll just quote some of my favorite, maybe cliché, beginning lines, maybe that will relieve the pressure. These are in no particular order.

"All this happened, more or less."
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut

"I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up."
On the Road – Jack Kerouac

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.“
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov "

“You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter”
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.”
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“The first time I laid eyes on Terry Lennox he was drunk in a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith outside the terrace of The Dancers. “
The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler

"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.”
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

“Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon after their three o'clock naps. And by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frosting from sweating and sweet talcum. The day was twenty-four hours long, but it seemed longer…”
To Kill a Mockingbird – Robert Mulligan (the film)

“Then there was the bad weather. It would come in one day when the fall was over. We would have to shut the windows in the night against the rain and the cold wind would strip the leaves from the trees in the Place Contrescarpe.”
A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway

“I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.”
Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive and for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to me".
Rebecca – Alfred Hitchcock (the film) with credit to Daphne du Maurier

“It was a hot afternoon, and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along that street. How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle? Maybe you would have known Keyes the minute she mentioned accident insurance, but I didn't. I felt like a million.”
Double Indemnity – James M. Cain

"There's an old joke: Two elderly women are at a Catskill Mountain resort. And one of 'em says: 'Boy, the food in this place is really terrible.' The other one says: 'Yeah, I know. And such small portions.' Well, that's essentially how I feel about life. Full of loneliness and misery and suffering and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly."
Annie Hall – Woody Allen

“We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive”
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunters S. Thompson

“The night was….”
Throw Momma from the Train – Danny DeVito