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100 Best First Lines from Novels
I am an invisible man. —Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)
Mother died today. —Albert Camus, The Stranger
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, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. —J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
They shoot the white girl first. —Toni Morrison, Paradise (1998)
The moment one learns English, complications set in. —Felipe Alfau, Chromos (1990)
A screaming comes across the sky. —Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
I am an invisible man. —Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)
Mother died today. —Albert Camus, The Stranger
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, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. —J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
They shoot the white girl first. —Toni Morrison, Paradise (1998)
The moment one learns English, complications set in. —Felipe Alfau, Chromos (1990)
A screaming comes across the sky. —Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
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