'100 Best First Lines from Novels' by andyhavens

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1. Call me Ishmael.

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2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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3. A screaming comes across the sky.

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4. Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buend??a was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

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5. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.

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6. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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7. riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

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8. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

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9. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of h

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10. I am an invisible man.