100 Best First Lines from Novels

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101: Louie pulled off his bra and threw it down upon the casket.
Nick Tosches, "In the Hand of Dante" 2002

102: "Now single up all lines!"
Thomas Pynchon, "Against the Day" 2006

103: He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a 
shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.
Don Delillo; Underworld 1997

104: A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy 
balloon of a head.
John Kennedy Toole: "A Confedracy of Dunces"

105: On Tuesday, October 11,1988, the Jason 
Taverner Show ran thirty seconds late.
Philip K. Dick: "Flow My Tears The Policeman Said" 1974



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