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"You will be given either a quotation or its author. You must supply"
"the opposite."
"*"
"*"
""
"And he began with the simple things that everybody's known and felt- the freshne"
"ss of a fine morning when you're young, and the taste of food when you're hungry"
", and the new day that's every day when you're a child."
"Stephen Vincent Benet"
"*"
"From the Police I had learned that not only men ran away in America but women as"
" well. But none of the cases about which I heard compared to mine. Anna had no l"
"overs."
"Isaac Bashevis Singer"
"*"
"It was after midnight when Felicia's mother put her key in the lock of the front"
" door, and pushed it open, and stepped into the hallway....The room was quiet, s"
"o quiet that she could hear the sound of breathing in it, and no one spoke to..."
"Kay Boyle"
"*"
"For just a moment she stopped in the darkness. There is no way of knowing what w"
"oman's thoughts went through her mind but, when the bottom of the hill was reach"
"ed and she came up tothe boy, she took his arm and walked beside him..."
"Sherwood Anderson"
"*"
"They were cold and wet with the dew, and could not jump until the sun warmed the"
"m. Nick picked them up, taking only the medium-sized brown ones, and put them in"
"to the bottle."
"Ernest Hemingway"
"*"
"She was watching him closely and the silence was embarrassing, yet in this crisi"
"s he could find no casual word with which to profane the hour....''Have you miss"
"ed me?''she asked suddenly."
"F.Scott Fitzgerald"
"*"
"That was all. It was simple, much simpler than somebody talking in a book about "
"youth and a girl he would never need to grieve over, because he could never appr"
"oach any nearer her and would never have to get any farther away."
"William Faulkner"
"*"
"Her pickax was on the upswing, poised for the first blow. It had not come yet; h"
"e had received no blue memo from the enchanted Mr. Fitweiler bearing nonsensical"
" instructions deriving from the obscene woman."
"James Thurber"
"*"
"''But the last great speech you make will turn many of your own against you,''sa"
"id the stranger.''They will call you Ichabod;they will call you by other names.."
".and their voices will be loud against you till you die.''"
"Stephen Vincent Benet"
"*"
"His body struck and rolled over and over, starting a little avalanche. And when "
"at last he stopped against a bush, the avalanche slid slowly down and covered up"
" his head."
"John Steinbeck"
"*"
"The voice from the kitchen had no name. It was as variable as the faces and figu"
"res of the women who came and sat in the evenings."
" "
"Kay Boyle"
"*"
"When he reached the hog pen he called the hogs down to the fence. They came runn"
"ing and grunting to Grandpa just like they were talking to him."
" "
"Jesse Stuart"
"*"
"At first she took it for a man. It could have been a man dancing in the field. B"
"ut she stood still and listened, and it did not make a sound. It was as silent a"
"s a ghost. ''Ghost,''she said sharply,''who be you the ghost of?''"
"Eudora Welty"
"*"
"The grandchild is the incentive. But it is the journey, the going of the errand,"
" that is the story, and the question is not whether the grandchild is in reality"
" alive or dead."
"Eudora Welty"
"*"
"She didn't like the phrase, Willowpool Female Seminary- it sounded biological. S"
"he always just said she was a graduate of Willowpool. Men teachers made Miss Wil"
"lerton feel as if she were going to mispronounce something."
"Flannery O'Connor"
"*"
"I have a girl, my daughter Miriam- she is nineteen- a very nice girl and also so"
" pretty that everybody looks on her when she passes by in the street...I thought"
" maybe you will be interested sometime to meet a girl like this."
"Bernard Malamud"
"*"
"Once we were on the homeward train, my tantrum ended; it had been a kind of ritu"
"al, for both of us, and he had endured my screams complacently...Years passed be"
"fore I needed to go to New York again."
"John Updike"
"*"
"They sat in silence for awhile and then heard a key in the front door. A man wit"
"h a new, lacquered straw hat came in...''Say now!Man! I heard my brother was in "
"town. Where he at? Where that rascal?''"
"William Melvin Kelley"
"*"
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that h"
"as made all the difference."
""
"Robert Frost"
"*"
"They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted wom"
"en under the gas lamps luring the farm boys."
""
"Carl Sandburg"
"*"
"O fan of white silk, clear as frost on the grass-blade, You are also laid aside."
""
""
"Ezra Pound"
"*"
"If I could catch the green lantern of the firefly I could see to write you a let"
"ter."
""
"Amy Lowell"
"*"
"Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of d"
"esire I hold with those who favor fire."
""
"Robert Frost"
"*"
"Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor: What place is this? Wher"
"e are we now? I am the grass. Let me work."
" "
"Carl Sandburg"
"*"
"A poem should not mean But be."
""
""
"Archibald MacLeish"
"*"
"I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they wil"
"l sing to me."
""
"T.S.Eliot"
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"But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep..."
""
""
"Robert Frost"
"*"
"At fifteen I stopped scowling, I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Foreve"
"r and forever and forever."
" "
"Ezra Pound"
"*"
"Something there is that doesn't love a wall..."
""
""
"Robert Frost"
"*"
"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."
""
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"Robert Frost"
"*"
"Y'know- Babylon once had two million people in it, and all we know about 'em is "
"the names of the kings and some copies of wheat contracts...Yet every night all "
"those families sat down to supper, and the father came home from his work..."
"Thornton Wilder"
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"We all know that SOMETHING is eternal."
""
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"Thornton Wilder"
"*"
"Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst."
""
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"Ralph Waldo Emerson"
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"'I love it as well thus as in it's dewy freshness,' observed he, pressing the wi"
"thered rose to his withered lips. While he spoke, the butterfly fluttered down "
"from the doctor's snowy head and fell upon the floor."
"Nathaniel Hawthorne"
"*"
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the ess"
"ential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach..."
""
"Henry David Thoreau"
"*"
"Among many wonderful stories related to this mirror, it was fabled that the spir"
"it of all the doctor's deceased patients dwelt within its verge and would stare"
" him in the face whenever he looked thitherward."
"Nathaniel Hawthorne"
"*"
"Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. For cou"
"ld the sun do that, then could I do the other; since there is ever a sort of fai"
"r play herein, jealousy presiding over all creations."
"Herman Melville"
"Moby Dick"
"Kneeling in prayer, and not ashamed to pray, The tumult of the time disconsolate"
", To inarticulate murmurs dies away, While the eternal ages watch and wait."
" "
"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
"Divina Commedia I"
"Trembling, I listened: the summer sun had the chill of snow; For I knew she was "
"telling the bees of one Gone on the journey we all must go!"
" "
"John Greenleaf Whittier"
"Telling the Bees"
"Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave th"
"y low-vaulted past!"
" "
"Oliver Wendell Holmes"
"The Chambered Nautilus"
"He kin' o' l'itered on the mat, Some doubtfle o' the sekle, His heart kep' goin'"
" pity-pat, But hern went pity Zekle."
" "
"James Russell Lowell"
"The Courtin'"
"Not one of all the purple Host Who took the flag today Can tell the definition S"
"o clear of Victory As he defeated- dying- On whose forbidden ear The distant st"
"rains of triumph Burst agonized and clear!"
"Emily Dickinson"
"Success Is Counted Sweetest"
"...if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell the"
"m, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for be"
"ing:"
"Ralph Waldo Emerson"
"The Rhodora"
"We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us..."
""
""
"Henry David Thoreau"
"Walden"
"Since then- 'tis Centuries- and yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmised "
"the Horses' Heads Were toward Eternity-"
" "
"Emily Dickinson"
"Because I Could Not Stop for Death"
"Let us get hold of the property...and we will...do without the woman."
""
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"Washington Irving"
"*"
"May the God of a white man look on your deeds with friendly eyes..."
""
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"James Fenimore Cooper"
"*"
"Fair scenes shall greet thee where thou goest- fair, But different..."
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"William Cullen Bryant"
"*"
"There was blood upon her white robes and the evidence of some...struggle..."
""
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"Edgar Allan Poe"
"*"
"...do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of."
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"Benjamin Franklin"
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