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Guthrie, Woody. "Pretty Boy Floyd." Dust Bowl Ballads. RCA Victor, 1964.

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Pirsig, Robert M. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. William Morrow and Company, 1974.

Fame is a food that dead men eat,-
I have no stomach for such meat.

Henry Austin Dobson

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Dobson, Henry Austin. "Fame is a Food That Dead Men Eat." The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Nov. 1906 - Apr. 1907.

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Message to American Booksellers Association. Annual banquet of the American Booksellers Association. 6 May 1942, Astor Hotel, New York City, NY, USA.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Graham Greene

The Power and the Glory

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Greene, Graham. The Power and the Glory. William Heineman, 1940, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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A League of Their Own. Directed by Penny Marshall, Parkway Productions, 1992.

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Santayana, George. Introduction. Ethics, by Spinoza, translated by A. Boyle. Everyman's Library, 1910.

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Russell, Bertrand. "On the Value of Skepticism." Sceptical Essays. George Allen and Unwin Ltd./W. W. Norton & Company, 1928.

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Chbosky, Stephen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Pocket Books, 1999.

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Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Affluent Society. Houghton Mifflin, 1958, ch. 1, sect. 1.

Smoking... Kills you, and if you are killed, you have lost a very important part of your life.

Brooke Shields

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Shields, Brooke. Testimony at House of Representatives hearings on cigarette advertising. House of Representatives meeting. 25 June 1981, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Saki. "Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business." The Square Egg. John Lane, 1924.

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Saki. "Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business." The Complete Saki. Penguin Books, 1998.

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Kipling, Rudyard. "If—". Rewards and Fairies. Macmillan and Co., 1910, st. 2.

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Kipling, Rudyard. "If—". Rudyard Kipling: Stories and Poems, edited by Daniel Karlin. Oxford University Press, 2015, st. 2.

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Stand By Me. Directed by Rob Reiner, Act III Productions, 1986.

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O'Connor, Flannery. "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction." Dorothy Lamar Blount Lecture Series. 28 Oct. 1960, Wesleyan College, Macon, GA, USA.

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Chandler, Raymond. The Little Sister. Hamish Hamilton/Houghton Mifflin, 1949, ch. 26.

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Armstrong, Louis. Quoted in "Louis Armstrong, Jazz Trumpeter and Singer, Dies." Written by Alvin Krebs. The New York Times, 7 July 1971.

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Lewis, C.S. The Screwtape Letters. Geoffrey Bles, 1942, no. 25.

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Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, 1927.

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Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Vintage, 2023.

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Deliverance. Directed by John Boorman, Elmer Enterprises, 1972.