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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Iñigo Montoya

The Princess Bride

On Vizzini's repeated misuse of the word "inconceivable".

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The Princess Bride. Directed by Rob Reiner, Act III Communications/Buttercup Films/The Princess Bride Ltd., 1987.

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Tommy Boy. Directed by Peter Segal, Paramount Pictures, 1995.

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

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

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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. 1.

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Jerry Maguire. Directed by Cameron Crowe, TriStar Pictures/Gracie Films/Vinyl Films, 1996.

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Reagan, Ronald. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1981, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Cash, June Carter and Merle Kilgore. "Ring of Fire." Performed by Johnny Cash. Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash. Columbia Nashville, 1963.

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Warhol, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975, ch. 6.

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Dead Poets Society. Directed by Peter Weir, Touchstone Pictures/Silver Screen Partners IV, 1989.

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Kafka, Franz. Die Verwandlung [The Metamorphosis]. Verlag, 1915, ch. 1.

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Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis, translated by Susan Bernofsky. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, ch. 1.

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Rounders. Directed by John Dahl, Spanky Pictures, 1998.

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Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day. Faber & Faber, 1989.

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Groundhog Day. Directed by Harold Ramis, Columbia Pictures, 1993.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1933, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "First Inaugral Address: Washington, DC, March 4, 1933." Great Speeches, edited by John Grafton. Dover, 1999.

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Twain, Mark. "The Church Edifice." Christian Science. Harper & Brothers, 1907.

To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

Theodor Adorno

Kulturkritik und Gesellschaft

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Adorno, Theodor. "Kulturkritik und Gesellschaft [An Essay on Cultural Criticism and Society]." Prismen, GS 10.1, 1955. Reprinted in Prisms, translated by Samuel and Shierry Weber. MIT Press, 1967.

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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi. Directed by Richard Marquand, Lucasfilm Ltd., 1983.

The moment I meet an attractive woman, I have to start pretending I have no desire to make love to her.

North by Northwest

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North by Northwest. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1959.

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Watterson, Bill. Calvin and Hobbes. Comic Strip. 8 Nov. 1989.

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Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. 24 Aug. 1966, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh, Scotland, act 3.

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Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Grove Press, 2017, act 3.