Some days, here on the Grass Roots blog, we'll put up the first sentence of novels and stories we like. First lines are great fun: good ones, like "Call me Ishmael" stick with you and sometimes gain a life all of their own in popular culture. Here's another great, famous one to kick us off:
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 childhood 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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