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Fun Trivia: L : Literary Terms & Quotes

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'Years from now when you talk of this - and you will - be kind'

    Tea and Sympathy. Dramatic moment in Robert Anderson's play

'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers'
    Tennessee Williams. Familiar line from 'A Streetcar Named Desire'

'You Can't Go Home Again'
    Thomas Wolfe. From the novel of the same name. Has any line ever been more frequently used?

'Youth is the one thing that is worth having'
    Oscar Wilde. A list of Wilde's witticisms would take forever.

'A beautiful woman is a blessing from heaven, but a good cigar is a smoke'
    Rudyard Kipling. Many pictures of Kipling show him enjoying his cigar

'Truth is beauty'. 'Beauty is truth'
    John Keats. Perhaps his most famous lines

'We loved and we loved for as long as we could Till the love was loved out in us both. But our marriage is dead when the pleasure has fled Twas pleasure that made it an oath'
    John Dryden. Dryden: Always clever, always caustic

Who is credited with writing 'Auld Lang Syne'?
    Robert Burns. Happy New Year

'Drink to me only with thine eyes'
    Ben Jonson. Again: Happy New Year

'The dog barks, but the caravan moves on' is a a clever proverb. What author borrowed from it for the title of one of his books?
    Truman Capote. 'The Dogs Bark' is the name of a collection of short works by Capote.


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