I’ve noticed a lot of sports on this site lately, and I thought it was time to fluff up the old intellectual pillow for a bit.
So, here’s the challenge: Figure out all the literary quotes I have listed below, and email them to me. At the end of the week, I’ll post the winners. If you can’t get them all, you can still get partial credit based on the difficulty of the quote. (in other words, how easy it is to find on Google) Each quote will be assigned a numeric value for the point total you get when you solve it. Finally, in order to get credit for the solve, you must give author and literary work.
Ready?
Here you go:
1) “Of suns and worlds I have little said worthy of mention. I see alone mankind’s self torturing pains.” (10pts)
2) “I am but mad, north by north west! But when the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a hand saw.” (5 pts)
3) “Life is the process of finding out too late, all of the things that should have been apparent at the time.” (30 pts)
4) “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.” (5 pts)
5) “He was born with a tendency to smile, and the feeling that the world was quite mad, and these were his only patrimony.” (25 pts)
6) “The magic of sex is it’s acquisition without the burden of possessions. No matter how many women you take home there’s never a storage problem.” (10 pts)
7) “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven… To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.” (10 pts)
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhood cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.” ( 15 pts. But only because I love the speech. It’s a gimme.)
9) “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” (25 pts. This is a pretty hard one. Good luck)
10) “Traumatic events always happen exactly two years before I reach the maturity level to deal with them.” (30 pts. Fairly tough one.)
11) “Be who you are and say what you feel because people who mind don’t matter and people who matter don’t mind.” (20 pts.)
12) “If you truly want to make apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.” (20 pts.)
Okay, that’s it. You have your challenge.
Hint 1) Every quote is by a different author except numbers 2 and 8. (This would imply, by simple logic, that numbers 2 and 8 are by the same author. Careful now, don’t strain too hard trying to figure that one out. Easy… Easy…)
Hint 2) Quotes 11 and 12 are not from a specific work, so all you need is the author.
Finally a bonus, for those pieces that were said by a character, the name of the character will earn you an extra 10 points a piece.
Enjoy!
Email answers to: Beerslinger
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