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I'll post a quick quiz then. It's been done before, I'm sure, but here are the opening lines of 15 novels. Novel and author please.
1. All this happened, more or less.
2. The schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everybody seemed sorry.
3. It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
4. It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.
5. The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
6. They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.
7. It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
8. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
9. Under certain circumstance there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
10. They’re out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them.
11. I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.
12. It was the day my grandmother exploded.
13. Mother died today. Or maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure.
14. You better not never tell nobody but God.
15. I'm pretty much fucked.
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