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It's All About Color
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Answers to Science Fiction/Fantasy Scramble
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1. Marion Z. Bradley
2. Larry Niven
3. Robert Heinlein
4. L. Ron Hubbard
5. Ursula K. Le Guin
6. Ray Bradbury
7. Frank Herbert
8. Stephen King
9. Lois M. Bujold
Answers to A Mystery For You To Solve
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1-W, 2-V, 3-H, 4-P, 5-O, 6-M, 7-S, 8-C, 9-B, 10-L, 11-F, 12-E, 13-Q, 14-Z, 15-X, 16-T, 17-D, 18-A, 19-Y, 20-K, 21-N, 22-J, 23-U, 24-I, 25-G, 26-R
Answers to Spring Poems & Poets
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Answers to What's It About & Who Said It?
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The Quote: "...one could find it with anyone, one could find it anywhere. It was just that you could never keep it."
Who said it? Norman Mailer, in An American Dream
What's it about? Love.
Answers to I Write, Therefore I Am
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"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them." —Flannery O'Connor
"The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it." —William Golding
"Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public." —Winston Churchill
"You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say." —F. Scott Fitzgerald
"All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand." —George Orwell
"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print." —Virginia Woolf
"Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day." —Ernest Hemingway
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." —Tom Clancy
"A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in." —Henry Miller
"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers." —T.S. Eliot
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Answers to Scrambled Titles and Toasted Cheese!
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Answers to For every beginning there is an ending
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The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allen Poe
Beginning: During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
Ending: …and the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the House of Usher.
Counterparts - James Joyce
Beginning: The bell rang furiously and, when Miss Parker went to the tube, a furious voice called out in a piercing North of Ireland accent: "Send Farrington here!"
Ending: "Oh Pa!" he cried. "Don't beat me, Pa! And I'll… I'll say a Hail Mary for you… I'll say a Hail Mary for you Pa, if you don't beat me… I'll say a Hail Mary…"
The Bucket-Rider - Franz Kafka
Beginning: Coal all spent; the bucket empty, the shovel useless; the stove breathing out cold; the room freezing; the leaves outside the window rigid, covered with rime; the sky a silver shield against anyone who looks for help from it.
Ending: "You bad woman! I begged you for a shovelful of the worst coal and you would not give me it." And with that I ascend into the regions of the ice mountains and am lost forever.
The Rocking-Horse Winner - D.H. Lawrence
Beginning: There was a woman who was beautiful, who started with all the advantages, yet she had no luck.
Ending: "But, poor devil, poor devil, he's best gone out of a life where he rides his rocking horse to find a winner."
The Snows of Kilimanjaro - Ernest Hemingway
Beginning: "The marvellous thing is that it's painless," he said. "That's how you know when it starts."
Ending: Outside the tent the hyena made the same strange noise that had awakened her. But she did not hear him for the beating of her heart.
The Chrysanthemums - John Steinbeck
Beginning: The high grey-flannel fog of winter closed off the Salinas Valley from the sky and from all the rest of the world.
Ending: "It will be enough if we can have wine. It will be plenty." She turned up her coat collar so he could not see that she was crying weakly - like an old woman.
A Good Man Is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor
Beginning: The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind.
Ending: "Shut up, Bobby Lee," The Misfit said. "It's no real pleasure in life."
To Set Our House in Order - Margaret Laurence
Beginning: When the baby was almost ready to be born, something went wrong and my mother had to go to the hospital two weeks before the expected time.
Ending: I could not really comprehend these things, but I sensed their strangeness, their disarray. I felt that whatever God might love in this world, it was certainly not order.
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