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Best First Line of a Famous Novel

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Novels That Hooked You From The Very First Line

Rated 0 points - posted 13 years ago by schriscoe in category Books.
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Call me Ishmael.
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Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
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A screaming comes across the sky.
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Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.
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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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