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=**Opening Lines**=

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[|Famous First Lines]


 * [|Famous First Lines Quiz 1]**


 * [|Famous First Lines Quiz 2]**


 * [|Famous First Lines Quiz 3]**

=Famous opening lines=

Do you know the title and the author?

1. It was a pleasure to burn.

2. "Where's papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.

3. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

4. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

5. He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf stream and he had gone 84 days now without taking a fish.

6. On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor.

7. You better not never tell nobody but God.

8. Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

9. Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. Do not think that I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn.

10. It was Wang Lung's marriage day.

11.In the shade of the house, in the sunshine on the river bank by the boats, in the shade of the sallow wood and the fig trees, Siddharta, the handsome Brahmin's son, grew up with his friend Govinda.

12. We were in the study-hall when the headmaster entered, followed by a new boy not yet in school uniform and by the handyman carrying a large desk.

13. When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

14. Dr Strauss says I shoud rite down what I think and remembir and evrey thing that happins to me from now on.

15. Then there was the bad weather.

16. 'The songs of the dead are lamentations for the living.'

17. 'In the beginning there was Eru who in Arda is called Iluvatar; and he first made the Ainur, who were the offspring of his thought and came to him before aught else was made.'

18. 'In my time I have been called many things: sister, lover, priestess, wise-woman, queen.'