Who Said That? Quotes By Famous American Authors
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“Resist much, obey little.”
- James A. Baldwin
- Michael Malone
- L. Ron Hubbard
- Walt Whitman
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“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
- Mark Twain
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Truman Capote
- Louisa May Alcott
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“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
- Alice Walker
- Arthur Miller
- J.D. Salinger
- Kurt Vonnegut
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“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
- Stephen King
- E.B. White
- S.E. Hinton
- Edgar Allan Poe
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“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
- Margaret Mitchell
- Maya Angelou
- Ken Kesey
- Edith Wharton
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“And yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.”
- Jack Kerouac
- Herman Melville
- John Updike
- Tennessee Williams
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“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
- Flannery O'Connor
- Eugene O'Neill
- Jack London
- Sylvia Plath
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“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
- Raymond Chandler
- Larry McMurtry
- Toni Morrison
- Harper Lee
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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
- Tim O'Brien
- Henry David Thoreau
- Ernest Hemingway
- Kathryn Stockett
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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
- Robert Frost
- James F. Cooper
- Henry James
- Robert Penn Warren
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“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
- Cormac McCarthy
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Theodore Dreiser
- Ralph Ellison
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“Nature is a haunted house - but Art - is a house that tries to be haunted.”
- Pearl S. Buck
- Hunter S. Thompson
- Philip Roth
- Emily Dickinson
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About This Quiz
America has produced a lot of great authors, and many of them have said some pretty thought-provoking things. Take our quiz to see if you know who said what!