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Who Wrote That? #35
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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Last updated: December 4, 2024
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We’re going to tell you about three of the children in Mrs. Jewls’s class, on the thirtieth story of Wayside School. But before we get to them, there is something you ought to know. Wayside School was accidentally built sideways. It was supposed to be only one story high, with thirty classrooms all in a row. Instead, it is thirty stories high, with one classroom on each story. The builder said he was very sorry.
Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
Henry VIII
There is something about a Martini,
A tingle remarkably pleasant;
A yellow, a mellow Martini;
I wish I had one at present.
There is something about a Martini,
Ere the dining and dancing begins,
And to tell you the truth,
It is not the vermouth—
I think that perhaps it's the gin.
“A Drink with Something in It”
To win back my youth, Gerald, there is nothing I wouldn't do - except take exercise, get up early, or be a useful member of the community.
A Woman of No Importance
On the fifteenth of May in the year 1066, Lord Godiva, Earl of all Coventry, summoned his daughters to appear before him in the Great North Hall of the Castle Godiva.
The Seven Lady Godivas
Paranoids are only paranoid because people keep telling them not to be paranoid.
Gravity's Rainbow
…
The barnacles which encrust the side
of the wave, cannot hide
there for the submerged shafts of the
sun,
split like spun
glass, move themselves with spotlight swiftness
into the crevices—
in and out, illuminating
the turquoise sea
of bodies. …
The barnacles which encrust the side
of the wave, cannot hide
there for the submerged shafts of the
sun,
split like spun
glass, move themselves with spotlight swiftness
into the crevices—
in and out, illuminating
the turquoise sea
of bodies. …
“The Fish”
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens
“The Red Wheelbarrow”
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely considered a bad move.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
I was a drunk, you have to be richer than I was to be an alcoholic.
The Fifth Elephant
Douglas Adams
Dr. Seuss
Louis Sachar
Marianne Moore
Ogden Nash
Oscar Wilde
Terry Pritchett
Thomas Pynchon
William Carlos Williams
William Shakespeare
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