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First Line	Book	% Correct
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.	Nineteen Eighty-Four	84%
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.	Pride and Prejudice	73%
___, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.	Lolita	60%
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.	Anna Karenina	55%
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.	The Great Gatsby	45%
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.	David Copperfield	33%
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.	The Bell Jar	33%
Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know.	The Stranger	33%
The studio was filled with the rich odor of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.	The Picture of Dorian Gray	27%
At the beginning of July, during a spell of exceptionally hot weather, towards evening, a certain young man came down on to the street from the little room he rented from some tenants in S-- Lane and slowly, almost hesitantly, set off towards K--n Bridge.	Crime and Punishment	22%
My desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split ups, in chronological order: 1) Alison Ashworth 2) Penny Hardwick 3) Jackie Allen 4) Charlie Nicholson 5) Sarah Kendrew.	High Fidelity	9%
Dear friend, I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have.	The Perks of Being a Wallflower	9%
I am a sick man... I am an angry man. I am an unattractive man.	Notes From Underground	7%
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.	The Haunting of Hill House	7%
I stand at the window of this great house in the south of France as night falls, the night which is leading me to the most terrible morning of my life. I have a drink in my hand, there is a bottle at my elbow.	Giovanni's Room	4%
Harry locked his mother in the closet. Harold. Please. Not again the TV.	Requiem for a Dream	2%
'FOR MADMEN ONLY' The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and withdrawn way of life.	Steppenwolf	2%

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