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Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Pan Books, 1979, ch. 1.

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Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. Directed by Guy Ritchie, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment/HandMade Films/SKA Films/The Steve Tisch Company/Summit Entertainment, 1998.

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

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Bunyan, John. "The Epistle to Four Sorts of Readers." The Holy City. London, 1665.

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Bunyan, John. "The Holy City." The Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan, edited by J. Sears McGee. Vol. 3, Clarendon Press, 1987.

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Ben-Hur. Directed by William Wyler, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1959.

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Wall Street. Directed by Oliver Stone, American Entertainment Partners/American Films, 1987.

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.

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James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. Secker & Warburg, 1938, ch. 5.

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Johnson, Samuel. Letter to James Boswell. 1 Sept. 1777.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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Chandler, Raymond. "The Simple Art of Murder." Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1944.

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Lamb, Charles. "Valentine's Day." The Examiner, c. 1819.

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Russell, Bertrand. "An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish." Unpopular Essays. George Allen & Unwin, 1950.

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Townshend, Peter. Won't Get Fooled Again. Performed by The Who. Track Records/Decca Records, 1971.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, by Hester Lynch Piozzi. London: Thomas Cadell, 1786.

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Arnold, Matthew. "Thyrsis." Macmillan's Magazine, 1866.

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Arnold, Matthew. "Thyrsis (1866)." Dover Beach and Other Poems. Dover Publications, 2012.

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Waters, Roger. "Goodbye Blue Sky." Performed by Pink Floyd. The Wall. Harvest Records/Columbia Records, 1979.

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Bacon, Francis. Apophthegms New and Old. London: Hanna Barret/Richard Whittaker, 1625, no. 36.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Nadine Gordimer

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Gordimer, Nadine. "Leaving School—II." London Magazine, May 1963.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, written by James Boswell. Vol. 1, London: Charles Dilly, 1791, "1755," aetat. 46.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.