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Who Wrote That? #12

Read each quotation and select its author from among those given. The post-game explanation identifies the specific work from which the quotation is taken.

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“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
Invisible Man
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
Kafka on the Shore
“Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”
The Velveteen Rabbit
“Tomorrow I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.”
Gone With the Wind
“Hog Butcher for the World,
  Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
  Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
  Stormy, husky, brawling,
  City of the Big Shoulders:”
“Chicago”
“So it goes…”
Slaughterhouse-Five
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Ever’body’s askin’ that. ‘What we comin’ to?’ Seems to me we don’t never come to nothin’. Always on the way.”
The Grapes of Wrath
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
Nineteen Eighty-Four
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony. Half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.”
Persuasion
Carl Sandburg
George Orwell
Haruki Murakami
Jane Austen
John Steinbeck
Kurt Vonnegut
Margaret Mitchell
Margery Williams
Ralph Ellison
Zora Neale Hurston
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Level 94
Jun 28, 2024
Misspelled Zora Neale Hurston.
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Level 76
Jun 28, 2024
Doggone autocorrect! Fixed.