Can you name the Novel Opening Lines IV?

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'Except for the Marabar Caves - and they are twenty miles off - the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary.' E.M. Forster
'The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel.'*James Frey
'Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes.'George Orwell
'What does it mean to truly love another?'*Nicholas Sparks
'Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway.'Zadie Smith
' ' The Bottoms' succeeded to 'Hell Row.' ''D.H. Lawrence
' 'What's your first memory?' Someone would ask.'Julian Barnes
'Billy Ray Cobb was the younger and smaller of the two rednecks.'John Grisham
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'A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green.'John Steinbeck
'The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.'Ian Fleming
'umber whunnnn / yerrrnnn umber whunnnn fayunnnn/ These sounds: even in the haze.'*Stephen King
'The unusual events described in this chronicle occurred in 194-, at Oran.' Albert Camus
'Left Munich at 8.35 p.m. on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6.46, but train was an hour late.'Bram Stoker
'Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton.'Ernest Hemingway
'My name is Karim Amir, and I am an Englishman born and bred, almost.'Hanif Kureichi
'Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case.'Arthur Conan Doyle
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