"Everything begins with a story,” said Joseph Campbell. And, every story must start with an opening sentence.
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He—for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it—was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.
— The first sentence from “Orlando” by Virginia Woolf.
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