"Everything begins with a story,” said Joseph Campbell. And, every story must start with an opening sentence.
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On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. Bridge.
— The first sentence from “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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