Don't all chess openings have these things in common?

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1) quick development

2) castle early

3) center control

 

It feels like once you've mastered these concepts, then openings would be a breeze or at least they will help you decipher effective openings. I've never seen an opening that was good that didn't comprise of those things. 

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Sicilian Najdorf. Black often castles very late, or not at all.

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What do you mean by "all chess openings"?
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There are some crazy opening lines out there... In some of which you will NEVER castle.
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"... For beginning players, [Discovering Chess Openings by GM John Emms] will offer an opportunity to start out on the right foot and really get a feel for what is happening on the board. ..." - FM Carsten Hansen (2006)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf

Two other introductions to openings are Openings for Amateurs by Pete Tamburro (2014)

http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/review-of-pete-tamburros-openings-for.html

https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/openings-for-amateurs/

https://www.mongoosepress.com/catalog/excerpts/openings_amateurs.pdf

and Winning Chess Openings by GM Yasser Seirawan (~1999).

https://web.archive.org/web/20140627132508/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen173.pdf