[nikos1121]

You can find this fun quotation puzzle, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications. I challenge us with the best ones out there.

The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram).

Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated, you’ll be solving them all within a few days.  If you’re stumped, take a break and return to it.

PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and how you made out.

You can certainly send your solution to my private reply, or if you need a hint for today’s Cryptogram ASK THE GROUP FOR HELP!

I suggest printing these out and work them on paper. If you need a little help you can copy and paste it to Hal’s Helper below.

You can then work on the puzzle without using pen and paper, but I recommend that you do NOT look at the letter counter. 

   HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER

One last request. Feel free to post a fun or clever clue, the more tangential to the quotation the better, but please don’t put the actual words of the quote in the clue.

[nikos1121]

I’d rate this one as fairly difficult, AT LEAST FOR ME, unless you are astute enough to recognize the. author.

PLEASE IN FACT RESIST THE TEMPTATION TO SHOW A PICTURE OF THE AUTHOR OR GIVE A CLUE THAT REVEALS WHO IT IS.

From The Arkansas Gazette

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90 seconds superior

[ComputerGuy]

Author. Finally.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

3:41.46 Putzed around for a while until some lucky guess elsewhere in the puzzle gave me the author (good clue!). Once you get the author, the puzzle is easy.

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Hint #1 - Pay attention to the double letter to get the author’s name. Once you get that, the rest is simple

hint #2 - there are two words, one of which is the opposite of the other