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- "You will be given either a quotation or its author. You must supply"
- "the opposite."
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- ""
- "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"
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- "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"
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- "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"
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- "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"
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- "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"
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- "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"
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- "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"
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- "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"
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- "''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"
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- "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."
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- "Kay Boyle"
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- "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."
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- "Jesse Stuart"
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- "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"
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- "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"
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- "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"
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- "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"
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- "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"
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- "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"
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- "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"
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- "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."
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- "Carl Sandburg"
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- "O fan of white silk, clear as frost on the grass-blade, You are also laid aside."
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- "Ezra Pound"
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- "If I could catch the green lantern of the firefly I could see to write you a let"
- "ter."
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- "Amy Lowell"
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- "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."
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- "Robert Frost"
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- "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."
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- "Carl Sandburg"
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- "A poem should not mean But be."
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- "Archibald MacLeish"
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- "I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they wil"
- "l sing to me."
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- "T.S.Eliot"
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- "But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep..."
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- "Robert Frost"
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- "At fifteen I stopped scowling, I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Foreve"
- "r and forever and forever."
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- "Ezra Pound"
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- "Something there is that doesn't love a wall..."
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- "Robert Frost"
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- "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."
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- "Robert Frost"
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- "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"
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- "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"
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- "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..."
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- "Henry David Thoreau"
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- "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"
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- "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."
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- "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!"
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- "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!"
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- "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."
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- "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..."
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- "Henry David Thoreau"
- "Walden"
- "Since then- 'tis Centuries- and yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmised "
- "the Horses' Heads Were toward Eternity-"
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- "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"
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- "May the God of a white man look on your deeds with friendly eyes..."
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- "James Fenimore Cooper"
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- "Fair scenes shall greet thee where thou goest- fair, But different..."
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- "William Cullen Bryant"
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- "There was blood upon her white robes and the evidence of some...struggle..."
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- "Edgar Allan Poe"
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- "...do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of."
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- "Benjamin Franklin"
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