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Top 20 Opening Lines from Literature

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"Call me Ishmael." Report Abuse
From Moby-Dick
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All children, except one, grow up. Report Abuse
- The Adventures of Peter Pan
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"All this happened, more or less." Report Abuse
- Slaughterhouse-Five
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"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Report Abuse
- Anna Karenina
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"It was a pleasure to burn." Report Abuse
- Fahrenheit 451
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"You better not never tell nobody but God." Report Abuse
from The Color Purple.
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" In the town, there were two mutes and they were always together." Report Abuse
- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
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"It was love at first sight." Report Abuse
- Catch-22
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." Report Abuse
- A Tale of Two Cities
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"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." Report Abuse
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
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"I am an invisible man." Report Abuse
- Invisible Man
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"Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much." Report Abuse
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
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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." Report Abuse
- Pride and Prejudice
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"Not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine." Report Abuse
- Cujo
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"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since." Report Abuse
- The Great Gatsby
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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." Report Abuse
- David Copperfield
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"You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter." Report Abuse
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf stream and he had gone 84 days now without taking a fish." Report Abuse
- The Old Man and the Sea
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"Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting." Report Abuse
- The Sound and the Fury
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"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like.." Report Abuse
- The Catcher in the Rye
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