100 Best First Lines from Novels ...

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Gravity's Rainbow in @ No. 3, very good ...

http://www.litline.org/ABR/100bestfirstlines.html

And I won't begrudge either Moby-Dick or Pride and Prejudice, but ...

But missing my personal favorite ...

"The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new." --Samuel Beckett, Murphy (1936)