Quote Me This (Warm Ups)

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Oh hey! Three days in a row! Can I make it four? *shifty eyes*

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The First Sentence First and Second Quotes
Choose: One
Writing Time: 6 minutes

Quote #1: Avarice, envy, pride,/Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all/On Fire. - Dante, The Divine Comedy

Quote #2: In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. - Charles Baudelaire

The Non Sequitur Third and Fourth Quotes
Choose: One (OR choose one, write for time, choose the other, write for time)
Writing Time: 3 minutes

Quote #3: "The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it." - Elizabeth Drew

Quote #4: I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out. - Nora Ephron

The Last Straw Fifth and Sixth Quotes
Choose: One
Writing Time: 6 minutes

Quote #5: Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions. - John Morley

Quote #6: "As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods;/They kill us for their sport." - William Shakespeare, king Lear

[Disclaimer: The above quotes belong to their respective speakers writers. We're just having a bit of fun. Not profiting, no suing, please :)]