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My favorites, from this list:

“A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.” —Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain / By the false azure in the windowpane…” —Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

“Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.” —Franz Kafka, The Trial

“You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino’s new novel, If on a winter’s night a traveler.” —Italo Calvino, If on a winter’s night a traveler

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.” —Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.” —Paul Auster, City of Glass

“For a long time, I went to bed early.” —Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.” —C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader