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The mother’s eyes where she sits by the window, unconsoled — have purple bags under them the father — tall, wellspoken, pitiful is the abler of these two — The above lines come from ___________________ written by ___________________.

I’m a-goin’ back out ‘fore the rain starts a-fallin’I’ll walk to the depths of the deepest black forestWhere the people are a many and their hands are all emptyWhere the pellets of poison are flooding their watersWhere the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prisonAnd the executioner’s face is always well hiddenWhere hunger is ugly, where souls are forgottenWhere black is the color, where none is the numberAnd I’ll tell and speak it and think it and breathe itAnd reflect from the mountain so all souls can see itAnd I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’But I’ll know my song well before I start singing The above passage comes from ___________________ written by ____________________________.

“Being here is a kind of spiritual surrender. We see only what the others see. The thousands who were here in the past, those who will come in the future. We’ve agreed to be part of a collective perception. This literally colors our vision. A religious experience in a way, like all tourism.” The above passage comes from ___________________ written by __________________ .

 I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?         I wandered in and out of the brilliant stacks of cans following you, and followed in my imagination by the store detective.         We strode down the open corridors together in our solitary fancy tasting artichokes, possessing every frozen delicacy, and never passing the cashier. The above passage comes from ___________________ written by ____________________________.

To them I owe all that I became,Judge, member of Congress, leader in the State. 5From my mother I inheritedVivacity, fancy, language;From my father will, judgment, logic.All honor to themFor what service I was to the people. The above lines come from ___________________ written by ___________________.

She thrilled with the sense of the arm round her; what if that should be lost? He laughed as if divining her: “Oh, it doesn’t run in the family, as far as I know!” Then he added gravely: “He came home with misgivings about war, and they grew on him. I guess he and mother agreed between them that I was to be brought up in his final mind about it; but that was before my time. I only knew him from my mother’s report of him and his opinions; I don’t know whether they were hers first; but they were hers last. This will be a blow to her. I shall have to write and tell her–” The above passage is from the story __________________________ written by __________________________.

No, she must keep silence! What is it that suddenly forbids her and makes her dumb? Has she been nine years growing and now, when the great world for the first time puts out a hand to her, must she thrust it aside for a bird’s sake? The murmur of the pine’s green branches is in her ears, she remembers how the white heron came flying through the golden air and how they watched the sea and the morning together, and Sylvia cannot speak; she cannot tell the heron’s secret and give its life away. The above passage is from the story __________________________ written by __________________________.

My brother is also a physician, and also of high standing, and he says the same thing. So I take phosphates or phosphites­whichever it is, and tonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and am absolutely forbidden to “work” until I am well again. Personally, I disagree with their ideas. Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good. But what is one to do? The above passage is from the story __________________________ written by __________________________.

A doubt. Slender as a hair. A washed cup set back on the shelf wrong-side-up. Her lipstick, and body talc, and hairbrush all arranged in the bathroom a different way. The above passage comes from ___________________ written by ____________________________.

The pines rocked, the storm eddied and whirled above the miserable group, and the flames of their altar leaped heavenward as if in token of the vow. The above passage is from the story __________________________ written by __________________________.