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Forrest Gump. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, The Tisch Company, 1994.

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Jones, LeRoi (aka Imamu Amiri Baraka). "Tokenism: 300 Years for 5 Cents." Kulchur, Spring 1962, no. 5.

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Se7en. Directed by David Fincher, Arnold Kopelson Productions, 1995.

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Dirty Dancing. Directed by Emile Ardolino, Great American Films Limited Partnership, 1987.

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Popper, Karl. The Open Society and Its Enemies. Vol. 2, Routledge, 1995, ch. 25.

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Keynes, John Maynard. The Economic Consequences of the Peace. Self-published, 1919, ch. 1.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "The Economic Consequences of the Peace." The Essential Keynes. Penguin, edited by Robert Skidelsky, 2016, ch. 1.

I believe that humor is a part of beauty.

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Beckmann, Max. "August 23, 1903." Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950, edited by Barbara Copeland Buenger, University of Chicago Press, 1997, p. 27.

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Graves, Robert. Good-Bye to All That. Jonathan Cape, 1929.

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Saki. "Reginald on Besetting Sins." Westminster Gazette, Sept. 1904.

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Saki. "Reginald on Besetting Sins." Selected Stories of Saki. Everyman's Library, 2017.

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Parker, Dorothy. "News Item." The Collected Poetry Of Dorothy Parker. The Modern Library, 1936, p. 70, I. 1.

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O'Connor, Flannery. Letter to Catharine Carver. 27 Mar. 1959.

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Dworkin, Andrea. Pornography: Men Possessing Women. Putnam, 1981.

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Hardy, Thomas. The Dynasts. Vol. 1, MacMillan & Co., 1904, pt. 1, act 1, sc. 5.

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Beauty and the Beast. Directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Feature Animation/Silver Screen Partners, 1991.

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Amis, Kingsley. "A Bookshop Idyll." A Case of Samples: Poems 1946–1956. Gollancz, 1956.

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Jobs, Steve. "Steve Jobs: 'There's Sanity Returning'." Interviewed by Andy Reinhardt. BusinessWeek, 25 May 1998.

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Faulkner, William. "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12." Interviewed by Jean Stein. Paris Review, Spring 1956.

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Boyz n the Hood. Directed by John Singleton, Columbia Pictures, 1991.

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Chekhov, Anton. Вишнёвый сад [The Cherry Orchard]. Directed by Konstantin Stanislavski. 17 Jan. 1904, Moscow Art Theatre, Moscow, Russia, act. 1.

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Chekhov, Anton. "The Cherry Orchard." Plays: Ivanov; The Seagull' Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard, translated by Peter Carson. Penguin Classics, 2002, act 1.