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Reality denied comes back to haunt.

Philip K. Dick

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said

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Dick, Philip K. Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said. Doubleday, 1974, ch. 15.

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Hughes, Langston. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." The Crisis, June 1921, I. 5.

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Hughes, Langston. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, I. 5.

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Harrison, William Henry. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1841, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 14.

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Madison, James. "General Defense of the Constitution." Virginia Ratifying Convention. 5 June 1788, Richmond, VA, USA.

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Madison, James. "Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention in Defense of the Constitution, June 6, 1788." James Madison: Writings. Library of America, 1999.

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Tecumseh. 1799. Tribal councils with White Men. Urbana, Ohio, USA.

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Tecumseh. Quoted in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, written by Dee Brown. Picador, 2007, ch. 1.

I know it when I see it.

Potter Stewart

Jacobellis v. Ohio

On the nature of "obscenity".

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Stewart, Potter. United States, Supreme Court. Jacobellis v. Ohio. United States Reports, vol. 378, 22 June 1964, pp. 184-204. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/378/184/.

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Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940, bk. 3.

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Hansberry, Lorraine. "The Nation Needs Your Gifts." Reader's Digest/United Negro College Fund creative writing contest winners meeting. 1 May 1964, New York City, NY, USA.

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Brown, Henry Box. Narrative of Henry Box Brown. Boston: Brown & Stearns, 1849.

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Brown, Henry Box. Narrative of the Live of Henry Box Brown. Dover Publications, 2015.

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Hamilton, Alexander. Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bank. 23 Feb. 1791.

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Hamilton, Alexander. "Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National, February 23, 1791." Alexander Hamilton: Writings, edited by Joanne B. Freeman. Library of America, 2001.

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Davis, Sammy, Jr. Yes I Can: The Story of Sammy Davis, Jr. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965, pt. 3, ch. 23.

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Twain, Mark. "The Czar's Soliloquy." The North American Review, Mar. 1905.

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Twain, Mark. "The Czar's Soliloquy." Collected Nonfiction of Mark Twain. Vol. 1. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016.

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James, William. The Principles of Psychology. Vol. 1, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1890, ch. 15.

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Santayana, George. "War Shrines." Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies. Charles Scribner's Sons/Constable and Co., 1922.

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Greenberg, Clement. The Nation. 7 Apr. 1945.

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Polk, James K. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1845, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Trump, Donald. Recorded remarks to Billy Bush on Access Hollywood television program. Sept. 2005, Burbank, CA, USA.

The idea of knowing exactly where you're going is overrated.

Sarah Sze

The New Yorker

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Sze, Sarah. "A Million Little Pieces." Interviewed by Andrea K. Scott. The New Yorker, 7 May 2012.

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Allen, Woody. "The Scrolls." Without Feathers. Random House, 1975.