Literary First Lines

All this happened, more or less. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five 1969

For a long time, I went to bed early. Marcel Proust, Swann's Way 1913

I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes From Underground 1864

It was like so, but wasn't. Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2 1995

I'm not pro-life and I'm not pro-choice. I'm pro-football. Kinky Friedman, Texas 2006