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What would be the first sentence of your autobiography?

Asked by skfinkel (13537points) July 12th, 2009

Or memoirs? I’ll think on this and add mine below as well.

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ragingloli's avatar

“I can’t believe I’m doing this.”

ratboy's avatar

“I was born at a very young age.”

applesaucemanny's avatar

“Dedicated to everyone who didn’t know me and wish they had.”

DeanV's avatar

Please don’t make as big of a deal about my death as you did with Michael Jacksons.

Either that or some sentence with the spelled wrong. I always spell it “teh”!

Jayne's avatar

It was a dark and stormy night…

tyrantxseries's avatar

Read at your own Risk

EntitY's avatar

There is nothing wrong with your eye sight, so do not attempt to adjust your vision.

Tink's avatar

“Yes, it’s true I have moved on to the land of the dead”
OR
“Stop your crying and go read a fucken book or something”

Blondesjon's avatar

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

DrBill's avatar

Born naked, died naked, it’s all a matter of planning.

skfinkel's avatar

The beauty and closeness of the fish below us in the boat were terrifying.

jonsblond's avatar

The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play.

suzyq2463's avatar

My parents were professional puppeteers, my sister a cloistered nun, my brother a Trekkie, and me: a hippie stranded in an ultra-conservative wasteland.

tinyfaery's avatar

I do not promise this will be interesting.

lilgiraffe's avatar

It would be hard to believe today that she was a quiet kid.

wundayatta's avatar

When I was seventeen, walking across a playground on a night that felt like absolution, I looked up, and fell into the stars.

MacBean's avatar

Don’t call me Ishmael.

dannyc's avatar

It was a hell of a ride…but not over yet, as I am assuming I am writing this while still alive.

Jeruba's avatar

“I wonder if any of us is capable of telling the truth.”

gilgamesh's avatar

I was a fat boy with a good sense of humor.

filmfann's avatar

Did you really pay $25.99 for this? Did you check how much it was at Costco?

phoenyx's avatar

Edit: realized my quip was already used earlier in the thread

Jayne's avatar

That’s the problem with clichés: they’re clichéd :)

applesaucemanny's avatar

@Jayne if only there was such a thing as a unique cliche

Strauss's avatar

“My earliest memories are of memories.”

jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities's avatar

“There were no survivors.”

augustlan's avatar

I’m an ordinary girl living an extraordinary life.

ubersiren's avatar

I was born a poor black child.

srmorgan's avatar

Life is a series of bad decisions,.......

mattbrowne's avatar

Then I had an idea.

MrBr00ks's avatar

Why did you buy this?

give_seek's avatar

I drank my first beer when I was four.

DrBill's avatar

@give_seek

I can’t beat that, in fact I still don’t drink, but I did have sex at 9.

brinibear's avatar

To whom it may concern:

ragingloli's avatar

@DrBill
did you like it?

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