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Who Wrote That? #8

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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“Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.”
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
“Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.”
Don Quixote
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night . . .”
“Howl”
“It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.”
Paul Clifford
“Winter is coming.”
A Storm of Swords
“We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight”
“We Real Cool”
“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.”
“The Waste Land”
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Allen Ginsberg
Edward Albee
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
George Orwell
George R. R. Martin
Gwendolyn Brooks
John Keats
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Stephen Chbosky
T. S. Eliot
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