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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

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into the subject of every AP English essay ever. -The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka