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"There are neither maps nor exercise to help us fine duende"
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Lorca
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"All arts are capable of duende...finds greatest range is in music, dance, and spoken poetry"
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Lorca
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"Very often intellect is poetry's enemy"
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Lorca
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"[Neruda] lacks the two elements with which so many false poets have lived: hatred and irony"
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Lorca
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"In ancient times, in the time of inspiration, the poet flew one world to another, ridings on dragons"
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Robert Bly
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"Powerful feeling makes the mind associate faster"
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Robert Bly
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"Duende involves a kind of elation when death is in the room. It is associated with the dark sounds"
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Robert Bly
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"Its the music that the words are sung to thats important...a great singer always makes a great poet"
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Bob Dylan
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"It is very important to get poetry out of the hands of the professors and the squares"
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Rexroth
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"The Glass Menagerie in one stroke lifted lyricism to its highest level in our theatre's history"
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A Miller
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"He was more eager to get away from where he was than he was to get to another place"
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Paul Bowles on Tennessee Williams
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"All work is autobiographical if its serious. Everything a writer produces is his inner history"
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Tennessee Williams
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"If I can be said to have a home, it is in New Orleans"
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Tennessee Williams
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"So successfully we have disguised from ourselves the intensity of our own feelings"
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Tennessee Williams
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"It's human valor that moves me"
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Tennessee Williams
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"I create imaginary worlds into which I can retreat from the real world"
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Tennessee Williams
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"The more I became dissipated, ill, a broken pitcher, the more too I became a creative artist"
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Van Gogh
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"Nature made me feel inebriated. I must have been about ten years old, but I was already a poet"
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Pablo Neruda
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"When I woke up, I put out a startled hand and found only a warm hollow, a warm absence"
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Pablo Neruda
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"That whole confused first love, or something like it, was shattering, painful, full of commotion and torment"
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Pablo Neruda
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"But what is there to do? We have to submit to life and struggle with it, in the belief that no one else will look after us"
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Pablo Neruda
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"When you explain it, poetry becomes banal"
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Pablo Neruda
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"We live on two levels: the fantastic level and the realistic level"
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Reverend Shannon
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"All women, whether they face it or not, want to see a man in a tied-up situation"
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Reverend Shannon
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"Oh you beast, you beast, you beast"
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Miss Fellows
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"There are worse things than chastity Mr. Shannon"
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Hannah Jelkes
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"Endurance is something spooks and blue devils respect"
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Hannah Jelkes
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"We are operating on the realistic level when we are doing things that have to be done"
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Hannah Jelkes
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"Nothing human disgusts me, unless it is unkind or violent"
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Hannah Jelkes
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What was the original title for "A Streetcar Named Desire" ?
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"Blanche's Chair in the Moon"
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What was Tennessee William's sister (and grandma's) name?
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Rose
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Which writer had an influence on both Bob Dylan and Tennessee Williams?
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Rimbaud
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What is Tennessee Williams' real name?
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Thomas Williams
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Who was Pablo Neruda named after?
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Jan Neruda
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"I wrestle alone in the deep dark, only I can know"
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Virginia Woolf
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Who wrote "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" ?
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Gay Talese
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Ernest Hemingway's "Death in the Afternoon"; George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant"; Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff"; and Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes" are all examples of what writing style?
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Creative non-fiction
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"Seeks larger truth than is possible through a mere compilation of verifiable facts"
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Gay Talese
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What is Truman Capote's real name?
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Truman Steackfus Persons
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"he is the most perfect writer of my generation"
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Norman Mailer on Capote
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"It's the hardest, when someone has a notion of you and its impossible to convince them otherwise"
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Truman Capote
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"It was a terrible experience and I'll never get over it"
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Truman Capote
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Who has 94% recall?
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Truman Capote
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What was the name of the family members murdered "In Cold Blood" ?
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The Clutters
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Who is "king of the bees" ?
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Otto Plath
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Who is the "Black Marauder" ?
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Ted Hughes
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"I wake up between 3 and 4 because that's the worst time. I really feel like god is speaking through me"
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Sylvia Plath
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How does Al Alvarez try to commit suicide?
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Sleeping pills
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How did Sylvia Plath commit suicide?
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Gas from the oven
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"A fuc*ing good poem is a weapon. It's a bloody big bomb!"
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Ted Hughes
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Who directed Sylvia (2003) ?
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Christine Jeffs
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Who directed Capote (2005) ?
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Bennett Miller
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Who directed The Hours (2002) ?
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Stephen Daldry
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While on the gondola, who does Sylvia recite from?
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Chaucer's Wife of Bath
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What is the name of Sylvia's book of poems, the only published book she had?
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Colossus
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Crepuscular, Twenty Love Songs and a Song of Despair, Elementary Odes, and Canto General are all works by whom?
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Pablo Neruda
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What is 'synthesia' ?
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Sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body
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Name the four aspects of Duende
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Irrationality, Earthiness, Heightened Awareness of Death, Touch of the Diabolical
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What are the three settings for The Hours (2002) ?
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Richmond, Los Angeles and New York
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"Someone has to die so that the rest of us value life more, it's contrast"
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Virginia Woolf
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The Hours (2002) is adapted from a book by who?
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Cunningham
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"The poet will die, the visionary"
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Virginia Woolf
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"You cannot find peace, by avoiding life"
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Virginia Woolf
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Who directed The Night of the Iguana?
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John Huston
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"You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of"
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Holly Golightly
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"My concern is that the info you have collected is accurate, correct, and not perverted by the relator to his or her purpose for any ulterior motive"
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Perry Smith
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"There's a time to die, and it may be the bird's time"
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Vanessa Bell
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Robert Lowell, W.D. Snodgrass and Anne Sexton are all what kind of poets?
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Confessional
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"If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present"
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"She has all the aesthete's characteristics"
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EM Forster on Virginia Woolf
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What is the term often associated with Virginia Woolf?
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Stream-of-consciousness
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"Her gift was for the pursuit of shadows, for the ghostly whispers of the mind"
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Quentin Bell
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"Praise and blame alike mean nothing"
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Virginia Woolf
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"...that five hundred a year stands for the power to contemplated that a lock on the door means the power to think for oneself"
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Virginia Woolf
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"I suspect that Kassner's bodily infirmity is for him what melancholy is for Kierkegaard"
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Rilke
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"Now how the world is, is the mystical, but that is it"
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Wittgenstein
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"More tears are shed for answered prayers than unanswered ones"
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Truman Capote
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Name the major Robert Lowell confessional work
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Life Studies
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"his speak is unequivocally himself and it is hard not to think of Life Studies as a series of personal coincidences, rather shameful, that one is honour-bount not to reveal"
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ML Rosenthal on Lowell's Life Studies
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"But suicides have a special language like carpenters they want to now which tools. They never ask why build"
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Anne Sexton "Wanting to Die"
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When Alvarez says he too tried to commit suicide, what does Plath respond with?
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"How?"
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"What I'm trying to say is that you've got your subject. It's you"
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Ted Hughes to Sylvia Plath
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"Do not dream of influencing other people...Think of things in themselves"
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Virginia Woolf
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"If I could stay in bed another fortnight, I believe I should see the whole of The Waves...I believe these illnesses are in my case partly mystical"
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Virginia Woolf
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Duncan Grant, John Maynard Keynes, T.S. Elliot, Roger Fry and Otto Morrell were all members of what group?
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The Bloomsbury Group
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"Mrs. Dalloway's destiny must be resolved" Who says that, and what happens next?
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Virginia Woolf says it in the movie, and then we see resolutions for Clarissa Vaughn and Laura Brown
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"It was death, I chose life"
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Laura Brown
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Breakfast at Tiffany's was the breakout work for who?
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Truman Capote
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"I would not have changed two words in Breakfast at Tiffany's, which will become a small classic"
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Norman Mailer
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"I suppose it sounds pretentious, but I feel a great obligation to write it"
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Truman Capote
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"I am in a really appalling state of tension and anxiety...if they should get it, I will have a complete nervous breakdown"
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Capote talking about Smith and Hickock pending verdict
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What is Harper Lee's real first name?
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Nelle
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"At least for now you should try and pretend you're having a good time tonight"
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Jack Dunphy before going to Nelle Harper Lee's movie premier for To Kill a Mockingbird
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"And I am a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die" Is an excerpt from which poem, and by whom ?
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Sylvia Plath, from 'Lady Lazarus'
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"Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well" Is an excerpt from which poem, and by whom?
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Lady Lazarus, Sylvia Plath
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"Out of the ash/ I rise with my red hair/ And I eat men like air" Which poem is this quote from, and by whom?
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Lady Lazarus, by Sylvia Plath
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"There's a stake in your fat black heart/ And the villagers never liked you"
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"Daddy" by Sylvia Plath
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"I think I'll get the flowers myself"
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Clarissa Vaughn
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"Always to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is"
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Virginia Woolf in The Hours
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"A poet is a shaman"
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Ted Hughes
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Who reads the poem by Yates?
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Ted Hughes during the recital speed game
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Who was a "likeable jerk" ?
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Truman Capote
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Who had "free-floating anxiety" ?
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Truman Capote
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In Cold Blood is often compared to what structure of writing?
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A Greek Tragedy
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Who commented on Capote's public reading very favourably?
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Newsweek
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Who was upset with Saul Maloof?
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Capote
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"This is the book I was always meant to write"
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Capote on In Cold Blood
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"If I leave here without understanding you, the world will see you as a monster"
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Capote to Perry Smith
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"If those boys get off, I'm coming to Brooklyn to hunt you down"
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Alvin Dewey
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"You could be walking in Denver Truman, and these eyes would be staring at you"
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Dick Hickock
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"I don't think you can call yourself a woman until you're a mother"
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Kitty
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"Oh Mrs. Dalloway, always giving parties to cover the silence"
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Richard to Clarissa
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"For a couple of hours we surrender ourselves to a world of fiercely illuminated values in conflict"
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Tennessee Williams
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"In a play, time is arrested in the sense of being confined"
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Tennessee Williams
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What city did Tennessee Williams not like?
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St. Louis
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Who gave Tennessee Williams his first typewriter?
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Mother
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Who directed Il Postino?
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Michael Radford
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The character Mario was played by?
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Massimio Troisi
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What collection does Mario read from?
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Elementary Odes
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Which two poets wrote to Beatrice?
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Dante and d'Annunzio
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Where did Bob Dylan change his name? (From Robert Zimmerman)
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The University of Minnesota
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What are the three levels of poetry?
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Angel, Muse, Duende
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Who is Sir Leslie Stephen?
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Vanessa and Virginia's father
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"The only thing I want is to see no more stores, no gardens, no more goods, no spectacles, no elevators" Is from which poem, by who?
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Walking Around by Neruda
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"It so happens I am sick of being a man"
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Walking Around
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"I stroll along serenely. with my eyes, my shoes, my rages, forgetting everything"
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Walking Around
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"I don't want to go on being a root in the dark...taking in and thinking, eating every day"
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Walking Around
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"His speak is unequivocally himself and it is hard not to think of Life Studies as a series of personal coincidences, rather shameful"
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Rosenthal
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What does Mario reply, when Neruda says "You're standing as stiff as a post" ?
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"Nailed like a spear" (From Neruda poem)
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Who says "Is it that the whole world is the metaphor for something else?" ?
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Mario
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What is the recreational activity in the cafe?
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Foosball
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How is Neruda first introduced in the film Il Postino?
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Through newsreel
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What is the first poem Mario reads in the cafe?
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Walking Around
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"No doubt they began in good faith...they saw themselves becoming entangled in a mesh of lies, falsehoods, deceits and perjuries, until they lost their souls"
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Octavio Paz on Stalinism
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In what year did Neruda win the Nobel Prize?
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1971
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"Look around, there's only one thing of danger for you here--poetry"
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Neruda as soldiers check his house
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Which writer revised their work endlessly?
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Tennessee Williams
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"In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman rises towards her day after day, like a terrible fish"
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Mirror by Plath
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"Igniting its carbon monoxides, by eyes"
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Poppies in October
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"If I've killed one man, I've killed two"
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Daddy by Plath
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"The dew that flies/ Suicidal, at once with the drive into the red"
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Ariel by Plath
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"The water I taste is warm and salt, like the sea, And comes from a country far away as health"
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Tulips by Plath
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"Herr God, Herr Lucifer/ Beware/ Beware"
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Lady Lazarus by Plath
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"And this is the kingdom you bore me to/ Mother, mother. But no frown of mine / Will betray the company I keep"
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The Disquieting Muses
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