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List of Famous First Sentences

Call me motherfuckin Ishmael. -Moby Dick, Herman Melville

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my rapey rapey loins. -Lolita, By Vladamir Nabokov

According to The Man, it was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking 13. -1984, George Orwell

Mother died today! -The Stranger, Albert Camus

All happy families are alike, but there aren’t any, so every family is unhappy in its own way. -Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

Mrs. Dalloway, stressed as shit, said she would buy the flowers herself. -Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since: don’t run over a man’s wife. -The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fittsgerald

I am Sam. -Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss

Elihu is funny sometimes.

Lol.