Carol Bolt - The Literary Book of Answers

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1. Take 10 or 15 seconds to concentrate on your question. Questions should be phrased closed-end, e.g., Is the job Im applying for the right one? or Should I travel this weekend? 2.

When you sense the time is right, jump to a random quote page, and there will be your answer. 3. Repeat the process for as many questions as you have. GOT QUESTIONS? THIS BOOK HAS THE ANSWERS. Carol Bolt is a professional artist living in Seattle.

DONT TRY TO BEND A STUBBORN HEART Sappho, A Garland

YOU SHOULD MAKE A LIVING OUT OF THAT Langston Hughes, Not Without Laughter 1930 by Langston Hughes

PICK FROM A HIGHER BUSH AND A SWEETER BERRY Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937 by Zora Neale Hurston

ARRIVE SAFELY Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl 1947 by Otto H. Frank, translation copyright 1952

LET YOUR COMPASSION BE MOVED Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

WHERE ALL IS PLAIN THERE IS NOTHING TO BE ARGUED Frederick Douglass, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass

SOMETHING [COULD BE] ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF DENMARK William Shakespeare, Hamlet

MAKE YOURSELF HEARD, FOR EVERY VOICE COUNTS! Dr.

Seuss, Horton Hears a Who! 1954 by Dr. Seuss Enterprises L.P.

YOU ARE THE FAVOURED POSSESSOR OF THE BENEFICENT FAIRY Emily Bront, Wuthering Heights

TRAVEL BEYOND THE REALM OF THE HOUR AND THE RESTRAINT OF HABIT Mary Oliver, Of Power and Time Upstream 2016 by Mary Oliver

THAT SEEMS TO HAVE A STAMP OF TRUTH UPON IT Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

SEW YOURSELF UP IN IT Herman Melville, Billy Budd

ITS AN ADDED FOUNDATION TO YOUR LIFE David Levithan, Every Day 2012 by David Levithan

ITS HOW [YOU] USE [IT] THAT COUNTS Madeleine LEngle, A Wrinkle in Time 1962 by Crosswicks, Ltd.

KEEP UP APPEARANCES Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit

CONTRIVE REASONS FOR DELAY Virgil, Aeneid

CERTAINLY Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

SOMETIMES IT IS A GOOD CHOICE NOT TO CHOOSE AT ALL Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Essays

AN INQUIRY WILL AFFORD [YOU] AMUSEMENT Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue