| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| The Old Man and the Sea - “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.” | Ernest Hemingway | 88%
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| The Grapes of Wrath - “There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.” | John Steinbeck | 88%
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| Gone with the Wind - “My dear, I don't give a damn.” | Margaret Mitchell | 69%
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| The Color Purple -“People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.” | Alice Walker | 65%
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| The Goldfinch -“Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.” | Donna Tartt | 54%
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| Rabbit at Rest -“That's the genius of the capitalist system: Either you're rich, or you want to be, or you think you ought to be.” | John Updike | 50%
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| The Road - “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.” | Cormac McCarthy | 46%
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| The Good Earth - “The rich are always afraid.” | Pearl S. Buck | 42%
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| All the King's Men - “There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.” | Robert Penn Warren | 19%
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| Arrowsmith - “I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies” | Sinclair Lewis | 19%
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| The Nickel boys - “You can change the law but you can’t change people and how they treat each other.” | Colson Whitehead | 15%
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| Less -“Just for the record: happiness is not bullshit.” | Andrew Green | 12%
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| The Night Watchman - “When he needed to calm his mind, he opened a book. Any book. He had never failed to feel refreshed, even if the book was no good.” | Louise Erdich | 8%
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| Dragon's Teeth - “Say the very simplest and most obvious things, say them as often as possible, and put into the saying all the screaming passion which one human voice can carry -- that was Adolf Hitler's technique." | Upton Sinclair | 8%
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| Olive Kitteridge -“She didn't like to be alone. Even more, she didn't like being with people.” | Elizabeth Strout | 4%
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