I Once Knew A Man

Some of the greatest opening lines:

1.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. - Charles Dickens, David Copperfioeld (1850)
2.The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. - C.K.Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)
3. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
 If you are working on your opening lines, don't let them linger too long in your head, for
I once knew a man
Who could figure and plan
The stories he intended to write.
For hours he'd sit
Planning characters to fit
With never an end in sight.
He'd dream and envision,
Redo his revision,
And imagine the query he'd send.
But when the bell tolled
If the truth be told
The pages in his lap were blank!