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I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints
The sinners are much more fun

Billy Joel

Only the Good Die Young

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Joel, Billy. "Only the Good Die Young." The Stranger. Columbia Records, 1977.

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You're a goddamn quarterback! You know what that means? It's the top spot, kid. It's the guy who takes the fall. It's the guy everybody's looking at first—the leader of a team—who will support you when they understand you. Who will break their ribs and their noses and their necks for you, because they believe. 'Cause you make them believe. That's a quarterback.

Any Given Sunday

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Any Given Sunday. Directed by Oliver Stone, The Donners' Company/Ixtlan Productions, 1999.

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Ah, youth is wasted on the wrong people.

It's a Wonderful Life

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It's a Wonderful Life. Directed by Frank Capra, Liberty Films, 1946.

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I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

Groucho Marx

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Marx, Groucho. "Groucho." People I have Loved, Known, or Admired, written by Leo Rosten. McGraw-Hill, 1970.

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Long as you live you ain't never gonna see no black vice president. Not while the president's white. They tell you to never say never? I'm saying never. You know why? Cause some black guy would just kill the president, that's why! Shit, I'd do it!

Chris Rock

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Rock, Chris. Chris Rock: Bring the Pain. HBO, 1 June 1996.

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This isn't life! This is just stuff! And it's become more important to you than living! Well, honey, that's just nuts.

American Beauty

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American Beauty. Directed by Sam Mendes, Jinks/Cohen Company, 1999.

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In the grand design, women were drawn from a different set of blueprints.

Dale Cooper

Twin Peaks

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"Rest In Pain." Twin Peaks, written by Mark Frost and David Lynch and Harley Peyton, directed by Tina Rathborne, season 1, episode 4, Propaganda Films and Spelling Entertainment and Lynch/Frost Productions, 1990.

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Your silence will not protect you.

Audre Lorde

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Lorde, Audre. "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action." Modern Language Association's Lesbian and Literature Panel. 28 Dec. 1977, Chicago, IL, USA.

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Lorde, Audre. "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action." The Selected Works of Audre Lorde. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.

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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Haruki Murakami

Norwegian Wood

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Murakami, Haruki. ノルウェイの森 [Norwegian Wood]. Kodansha, 1987.

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If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose—because it contains all the others—the fact that they were the people who created the phrase 'to make money.' No other language or nation had ever used these words before... Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created.

Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged

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Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged. Random House, 1957, pt. 2, ch. 2.

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We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can't think what anybody sees in them.

Bilbo Baggins

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Quoted in The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Tolkiein, J.R.R. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. George Allen & Unwin, 1937, ch. 1.

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I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system-that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

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Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1960, ch. 20.

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Yet we have gone on living,
Living and partly living.

T.S. Eliot

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Eliot, T. S. Murder in the Cathedral. 1935, Chapter House, Canterbury Cathedral, pt. 1.

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My foe, my enemy, is an animal. In order to conquer it, I have to think like an animal, and whenever possible, to look like one.

Caddyshack

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Caddyshack. Directed by Harold Ramis, Orion Pictures, 1980.

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But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief. Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.

Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things

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Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Random House, 1997, ch. 20.

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Honey, all you have to be by the time you're 23 is yourself.

Reality Bites

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Reality Bites. Directed by Ben Stiller, Jersey Films, 1994.

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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others... One feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivngs; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

W.E.B. Du Bois

The Souls of Black Folk

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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches. A. C. McClurg & Co., 1903, ch. 1.

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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. The Souls of Black Folk, edited by Brent Hayes Edwards. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 1.

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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Willa Cather

The Song of the Lark

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Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915, pt. 4, ch. 8.

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Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Vintage, 1999, pt. 4, ch. 8.

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Sheer magnetism, darling.

James Bond

Live and Let Die

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Live and Let Die. Directed by Guy Hamilton, Eon Productions, 1973.

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Magnificent desolation.

Buzz Aldrin

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Aldrin, Edward Eugene, Jr. "Buzz." Spoken on the moon. 20 July 1969.

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