Some of my favorite opening lines from novels:
Call me Ishmael. — Moby Dick, Herman Melville
to wound the autumnal city. — Dhalgren, Samuel R Delany
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. — The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower I), Stephen King
It was a pleasure to burn — Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
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