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Meriadoc · 4099 days ago · link · · parent · post: What's the single greatest sentence ever written in the English language?
There was a very good article in the Atlantic recently about authors' favorite first lines of books. Not totally the same as this thread, but a similar idea. There is a certain art in opening lines of stories. A great many of them go with Moby Dick: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/07/thi.../Call me Ishmael.