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1. Just choose the novel this first line is from. "Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him."
2. "No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine."
3. "When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake - not a very big one."
4. "If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads."
5. "I was leaning against the bar in a speakeasy on Fifty-second Street, waiting for Nora to finish her Christmas shopping, when a girl got up from the table where she had been sitting with three other people and came over to me."
6. "My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old."
7. "By the time he graduated from college, John Smith had forgotten all about the bad fall he took on the ice that January day in 1953."
8. "He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher - the Wonder House, as the natives called the Lahore Museum."
9. "'They made a silly mistake, though,' the Professor of History said, and his smile, as Dixon watched, gradually sank beneath the surface of his features at the memory."
10. "One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it - it was the black kitten's fault entirely."
11. "Lieutenant Commander Peter Holmes of the Royal Australian Navy woke soon after dawn."
12. "An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money."
13. "Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes."
14. "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."
15. "I first met him in Piraeus."
16. "When Chili first came to Miami Beach twelve years ago they were having one of their off-and-on cold winters: thirty-four degrees the day he met Tommy Carlo for lunch at Vesuvio's on South Collins and had his leather jacket ripped off."
17. "I met my Aunt Augusta for the first time in more than half a century at my mother's funeral."
18. "In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy, an old crone came to visit the mother of the boy, Paul."
19. "For the first fifteen years of our lives, Danny and I lived within five blocks of each other and neither of us knew of the other's existence."
20. "It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about."
21. "Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy."
22. "One may as well begin with Helen's letters to her sister."
23. "Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen."
24. "An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay - Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's outstretched southwestern leg - and a person of curiosity could at once have deduced several strong probabilities about the pair who began to walk down the quay at Lyme Regis, the small but ancient eponym of the inbite, one incisively sharp and blustery morning in the late March of 1867."
25. "Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith."
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