We've done this before, gang: just identify the personage from whose diary the quote is taken. Have fun guessing.

1. We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. It may be the fire destruction prophesied in the Euphrates Valley era, after Noah and his fabulous ark. Written by: _________
2. What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again. Written by: ________
3. I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Written by: __________
4. Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out. Written by: __________
5. Mrs Murphy said here yesterday that [she] thought she would Commence on Milt. & eat him. I don’t [think] that she has done so yet; it is distressing. Written by: _____________
6. I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition. Written by: ___________
7. Sitting there I tried to coin a few compliments. But they perished in the icy sea between us. And then there was nothing. Written by: ______________
8. Finished that extraordinary book Wuthering Heights. It is of all novels I ever read the one I should least like to be a character in myself. Written by: ______________
9. He said he had made one great mistake – when he signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification – the danger that the Germans would make them. Written by: ________________
10. [Possible movie titles] Don't Knock the Bomb, Dr Doomsday and His Nuclear Wiseman, Dr Doomsday, or, How to Start World War III Without Even Trying, My Bomb, Your Bomb, Save the Bomb… Written by: _________________

Author choices: Anne Frank, Sylvia Plath, Harry S Truman, Stanley Kubrick, One of the Donner Party, Kurt Cobain, Virginia Woolf, Linus Pauling, Samuel Pepys, Lewis Carroll.

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Dmitri Gheorgheni

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