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Is it all right to boil a sentient creature alive just for our gustatory pleasure?

David Foster Wallace

Gourmet

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Wallace, David Foster. "Consider the Lobster." Gourmet, Aug. 2004.

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Wallace, David Foster. "Consider the Lobster." Consider the Lobster and Other Essays. Back Bay Books, 2007.

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Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.

The Outlaw Josey Wales

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The Outlaw Josey Wales. Directed by Clint Eastwood, The Malpaso Company, 1976.

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For us to live any other way was nuts. Uh, to us, those goody-good people who worked shitty jobs for bum paychecks and took the subway to work every day, worried about their bills, were dead. I mean, they were suckers. They had no balls. If we wanted something, we just took it. If anyone complained twice they got hit so bad, believe me, they never complained again. It was just all routine and you didn't even think about it.

Henry Hill

Goodfellas

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Goodfellas. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Warner Bros., 1990.

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Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, that's life. Trying to make ends meet, you're a slave to money then you die.

The Verve

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Bitter Sweet Symphony

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Ashcroft, Richard. "Bitter Sweet Symphony." Performed by The Verve. Urban Hymns. Hut Records, 1997.

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A pretty girl is like a melody
That haunts you night and day.

Irving Berlin

A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody

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Berlin, Irving. "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody." Ziegfield Follies of 1919. Performed by John Steel. 1919, New York City, NY, USA.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

The Will to Believe

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James, William. "The Will to Believe." Philosophical Club of Yale University. Apr. 1896, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. Lecture.

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James, William. "The Will to Believe." William James: Essays and Lectures, edited by Richard Kamber. Routledge, 2016.

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I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner

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Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner. Riverhead Books, 2003.

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In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.

George Eliot

Felix Holt, the Radical

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1866, ch. 18.

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical, edited by Lynda Mugglestone. Penguin Classics, 1995, ch. 18.

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The wise and tragic sense of life. By this I mean...the sense that life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat, and that the redeeming things are not "happiness and pleasure" but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "To: Scottie Fitzgerals, October 5, 1940." Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Scribner, 1995. Originally from Letter to Frances Scott Fitzgerald, 5 Oct. 1940.

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I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley

Invictus

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Henley, William Ernest. Book of Verses. London: David Nutt, 1888.

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Henley, William Ernest. "Invictus." A Selection of Poems. White Press, 2015, st. 4.

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The circle is now complete. When I left you, I was but the learner; now I am the master.

Darth Vader

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. Directed by George Lucas, Lucasfilm Ltd., 1977.

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Joy to the world! the lord is come;
Let earth receive her King.
Let ev'ry heart prepare Him room,
And heav'n and nature sing.

Isaac Watts

Joy to the World

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Watts, Isaac. "Joy to the World." The Psalms of David: Imitated in the Language of the New Testament, and Applied to the Christian State and Worship. London: J. Clark, 1719.

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The biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.

George H.W. Bush

1992 State of the Union Address

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Bush, George H. W. State of the Union Address. Joint session of the United States Congress. 28 Jan. 1992, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

The Way of All Flesh

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Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Grant Richards, 1903, ch. 34.

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Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Everyman's Library, 1993, ch. 34.

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A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving

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Irving, Washington. "Rip Van Winkle." The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. New York: C. S. Van Winkle, 23 June 1819–July 1820.

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Irving, Washington. "Rip Van Winkle." The Sketch-Book, edited by Susan Manning. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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But what is Freedom? Rightly understood,
A universal licence to be good.

Hartley Coleridge

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Coleridge, Hartley. Liberty. c. 1833, I. 13.

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Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs,
And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns.

Alfred Tennyson

Poems

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Tennyson, Alfred. "Locksley Hall." Poems. Vol. 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1842, I. 137.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Locksley Hall." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 137.

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Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as "the truth" exists.... The implied objective of this line of thought is a nightmare world in which the Leader, or some ruling clique, controls not only the future but the past. If the Leader says of such and such an event, "It never happened"—well, it never happened. If he says that two and two are five—well, two and two are five. This prospect frightens me much more than bombs.

George Orwell

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Orwell, George. "Looking Back on the Spanish War." New Road, June 1943, pt. 4.

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Orwell, George. "Looking Back on the Spanish War." The Collected Essays, Journalism And Letters Of George Orwell, vol. 2: My Country Right or Left 1940-1943, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. David R. Godine, 2007, no. 41, pt. 4.

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But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom: to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition—and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives: to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain.

Joseph Conrad

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Conrad, Joseph. The Nigger of the "Narcissus": A Tale of the Forecastle. London: Heinemann, 1897, preface.

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Conrad, Joseph. "The Nigger of the '"Narcissus.'" The Secret Sharer and Other Stories. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, preface.

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Are you scared of the fuckin' boogeyman? I'm not.

John Wick

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John Wick. Directed by Chad Stahelski, Thunder Road Pictures/87Eleven Productions/MJW Films/DefyNite Films, 2014.

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