100 best first lines from novels

Think the list is right? There are some amazing lines in here. How many have you read? I have actually read most on this list.

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for example:

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy ********* was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. – J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
 

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