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There is nothing like the sight of an amputated spirit. There is no prosthetic for that.

Scent of a Woman

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Scent of a Woman. Directed by Martin Brest, City Lights Films, 1992.

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First we feel. Then we fall.

James Joyce

Finnegans Wake

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Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. Faber and Faber, 1939.

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Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. Wordsworth, 2012.

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Everybody wants results but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.

Sudden Impact

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Sudden Impact. Directed by Clint Eastwood, Warner Bros., 1983.

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Weed is from the earth. God put this here for me and you. Take advantage man, take advantage.

Friday

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Friday. Directed by F. Gary Gray, New Line Productions/Ghetto Bird Productions, 1995.

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Poverty anywhere constitutes a danger to prosperity everywhere.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Address to Conference of International Labor Organization. Conference of International Labor Organization. 17 May 1944, Washington, DC, USA.

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Dry your eyes, baby; it's out of character.

Notorious

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Notorious. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, RKO Pictures/Vanguard Films, 1946.

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Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea

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Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

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Remember who you are.

The Lion King

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The Lion King. Directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Feature Animation, 1994.

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Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it’s necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?

Pulp Fiction

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Pulp Fiction. Directed by Quentin Tarantino, A Band Apart/Jersey Films, 1994.

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There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

Calvin

Quoted in Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson

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Watterson, Bill. Calvin and Hobbes. Comic Strip. 28 Aug. 1988.

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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

C.S. Lewis

A Grief Observed

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Lewis, C.S., published as N.W. Clerk. A Grief Observed. Faber and Faber, 1961, ch. 1.

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All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine.

Jeff Spicoli

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Fast Times at Ridgemont High

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Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Directed by Amy Heckerling,Refugee Films, 1982.

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Most paranoid delusions are intricate but this is brillant.

The Terminator

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The Terminator. Directed by James Cameron, Hemdale/Pacific Western Productions/Euro Film Funding/Cinema '84, 1984.

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He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him).

George Orwell

Down and Out in Paris and London

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Orwell, George. Down and Out in Paris and London. Victor Gollancz, 1933, ch. 30.

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You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man.

Citizen Kane

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Citizen Kane. Directed by Orson Welles. RKO Radio Pictures/Mercury Productions, 1941.

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History...is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce

Ulysses

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Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, 1922, bk. 1, ch. 2.

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Joyce, James. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes, edited by Catherine Flynn. Cambridge University Press, 2022, ch. 2.

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My body is ready, but I am not.

The Seventh Seal

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Det sjunde inseglet [The Seventh Seal]. Directed by Ingmar Bergman, Svensk Filmindustri, 1957.

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Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.

Gloria Steinem

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Steinem, Gloria. "Erotica vs. Pornography." Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1983. Originally published c. 1978, publisher unknown.

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