Topic: Lit Quiz
Here's the challenge: 1) Identify the quote, AND 2) post a new quote for the next person to identify. I'll start with this:
"I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot."
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1. Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye
2. "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled in the daytime, but at night it is another thing."
3 2019-06-06 18:12:42 (edited by Sideman 2019-06-06 18:13:31)
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1. Hemingway - "The Sun Also Rises"
2. "People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
I used that particular quote for #2 because it reminded me of my maternal grandfather's advice to me when I was a teenager in the early 1960s" "Everywhere you go, you will always find two things - good and bad. And you'll usually find whatever you look for. Look for the good - you'll have a happier life." (Carl Crouch)
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Got the book right, Alan. The character who said it - Jake Barnes. I like that quote from your grandmother!
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1. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. I think the Judge in the trial says the line.
2. "A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone."
6 2019-06-06 23:56:46 (edited by Alza 2019-06-06 23:57:37)
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Bobbie.R.Byrd wrote:
1. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. I think the Judge in the trial says the line.
2. "A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone."
1. Tyrion! Game of Thrones.
2. "... never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams.”
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1. Tyrion! Game of Thrones.
2. "... never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams.”
Looks like you've stumped everybody. Care to enlighten us? Sorry, there's no prize for beating us--this is a friendly game. JP
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Bobbie.R.Byrd wrote:
2. "... never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams.”
Ender's Game Orson Scott Card
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Alza wrote:
2. "... never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams.”
Ender's Game Orson Scott Card
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Alza wrote:
2. "... never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams.”
1. Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
2. “I wish I knew how to quit you.”
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1. Brokeback Mountain
2. "I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart"
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Whoops, forgot to mention Brokeback Mountain author Annie Proulx
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1. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar.
2. "Ce qui embellit le désert c'est qu'il cache un puits quelque part."
"What makes the desert beautiful, is that somewhere it hides a well."
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Mariana Reuter wrote:
2. "Ce qui embellit le désert c'est qu'il cache un puits quelque part."
"What makes the desert beautiful, is that somewhere it hides a well."
1. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
2. "You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think."
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1. Dorothy Parker
2. Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
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j p lundstrom wrote:
1. Dorothy Parker
2. Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Robert A. Heinlen said this.
Memphis Trace
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Memphis Trace wrote:
j p lundstrom wrote:1. Dorothy Parker
2. Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.Robert A. Heinlen said this.
Memphis Trace
Where's the quote for us to identify?
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j p lundstrom wrote:
Memphis Trace wrote:j p lundstrom wrote:1. Dorothy Parker
2. Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.Robert A. Heinlen said this.
Memphis Trace
Where's the quote for us to identify?
2. Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Memphis Trace
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Here's a quote: "But it's the truth even if it didn't happen." Anyone?
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pammy raff wrote:
Here's a quote: "But it's the truth even if it didn't happen." Anyone?
¿Chief Bromden from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
It's a takeoff, seems to me, of Mark Twain's "When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not."
Memphis Trace
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See, it's a two-step process (on the off-chance you're not messing with me):
1. Identify the quote.
2. Post another quote for the next person to identify.
So here goes...
“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.”
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Mae West, JP. (But don't know from where or who the stork should have replaced. Do you?)
"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win."
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Oh well, it seems the game has fizzled out. Last answer: To Kill A Mockingbird:.
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1, "To Kill a Mockingbird," by Harper Lee
2. "How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?"
25 2019-07-05 13:54:08 (edited by j p lundstrom 2019-07-05 14:01:52)
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1. Woody Allen (Not sure I understand this one, but you know Woody.)
2a. “It is better to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.”
2b. “Tis better to have loved and lost/ Than never to have loved at all.”
Even the greats copy each other, but adding to the word count doesn't seem to improve an idea.
