Book with best opening paragraph

[Rick Nebiolo]

"WHAT MAKES IAGO EVIL? Some people ask. I never ask."

Joan Didion - "Play It As It Lays"

I'm not sure it's the best but it's the one I remember word for word.

~ Rick

[BadBoyBenny]

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Tolstoy

The first one I thought of, but I don't really agree with it.

[New001]

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At the beginning of July, during an extremely hot spell, towards evening, a young man left the closet he rented from tenants in S_____y Lane, walked out to the street, and slowly, as if indecisively, headed for the K_____n Bridge.

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