Best First Lines from Novels
Call me Ishmael. —Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)
For a long time, I went to bed early. —Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way, (1913)
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. —Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877)
Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. —Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
This is the saddest story I have ever heard. —Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier (1915)
The moment one learns English, complications set in. —Felipe Alfau, Chromos (1990)
To be born again, first you have to die." —Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988)
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. —Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead. —Graham Greene, The End of the Affair (1951)
It was love at first sight. —Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (1961)
I have never begun a novel with more misgiving. W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor'sEdge (1944)
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)
If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog. Saul Bellow, Herzog (1964)
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between (1953))
Justice?—You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law. —William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own (1994)
Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common disaster, I've come to learn, is women. —Charles Johnson, Middle Passage (1990)
To be born again, first you have to die." —Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988)
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. —Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead. —Graham Greene, The End of the Affair (1951)
It was love at first sight. —Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (1961)
I have never begun a novel with more misgiving. W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor'sEdge (1944)
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)
If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog. Saul Bellow, Herzog (1964)
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between (1953))
Justice?—You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law. —William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own (1994)
Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common disaster, I've come to learn, is women. —Charles Johnson, Middle Passage (1990)
CLOSING LINES
Don't judge a book by its cover - instead, try and wait for the last line.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. –F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)
“I'll go home and I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.” –Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind (1936)
"A man's got to know his limitations."Clint Eastwood as maverick cop Harry Callahan (following Dirty Harry in 1971).
In the final scene, Wild West outlaws Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the "Sundance Kid" (Robert Redford) are surrounded by the Bolivian army. Butch says: "Oh Good. For a moment there, I thought we were in trouble."
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. –F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)
“I'll go home and I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.” –Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind (1936)
"A man's got to know his limitations."Clint Eastwood as maverick cop Harry Callahan (following Dirty Harry in 1971).
In the final scene, Wild West outlaws Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the "Sundance Kid" (Robert Redford) are surrounded by the Bolivian army. Butch says: "Oh Good. For a moment there, I thought we were in trouble."
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