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Are all men in disguise except those crying?

Dannie Abse

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Abse, Dannie. "Encounter at a Greyhound Bus Station." Ask the Moon. Hutchinson, 2014.

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"Don't You Know Anything About Women?" The Wonder Years, written by Neal Marlens and Carol Black and Tammy Ader, directed by Jeffrey D. Brown, season 3, episode 11, The Black/Marlens Company and New World Television, 1990.

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Gershwin, Ira. "Love is Here to Stay." The Goldwyn Follies. Composed by George Gershwin. Performed by Kenny Baker. Samuel Goldwyn Productions, 1938.

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Drabble, Margaret. A Summer Bird-Cage. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963, ch. 7.

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Parkinson, C. Northcote. Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Progress. John Murray, 1958, ch. 1. Originally published in The Economist, Nov. 1955.

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Malcolm X. Directed by Spike Lee, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, 1992.

No man ever repented that he arose from the table sober, healthful, and with his wits about him.

Jeremy Taylor

The House of Feasting

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Taylor, Jeremy. "The House of Feasting." c. 1653, Golden Grove, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK. Sermon.

Hope has never trickled down. It has always sprung up.

Studs Terkel

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Terkel, Studs. Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times. New Press, 2003.

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

Marjorie Rawlings

The Yearling

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Rawlings, Marjorie. The Yearling. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938, ch. 12.

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Rossetti, Christina. "Goblin Market." Goblin Market and Other Poems. London: Macmillan, 1862.

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Rossetti, Christina. "Goblin Market." The Complete Poems. Penguin Classics, 2001.

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Dryden, John. An Essay of Dramatic Poesy. London: Henry Herringman, 1668.

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John Dryden. "An Essay of Dramatic Poesie." John Dryden: Selected Writings, edited by Steven N. Zwicker. Oxford University Press, 2020.

We have ways to make men talk.

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

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The Lives of a Bengal Lancer. Directed by Henry Hathaway, Paramount Pictures, 1935.

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Bush, Barbara. Remarks at Wellesley College commencement. Commencement ceremony. 1 June 1990. Wellesley, MA, USA.

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Dazed and Confused. Directed by Richard Linklater, Detour Filmproduction/Alphaville Films, 1993.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

Walt Kelly

The cartoon-strip character, Pogo the opossum, looking at litter under a tree. Used as an Earth Day poster in 1971.

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Kelly, Walt. "We Have Met the Enemy…" Pogo. 22 Apr. 1970. Poster.

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Jerome, Jerome K. "On Being Idle." Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow. Field & Tuer, 1886.

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Gregory, Dick. "New York City." From the Back of the Bus. Dutton, 1962.

If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.

Terry Tempest Williams

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Williams, Terry Tempest. Statement regarding the Utah public lands management act of 1995. 13 July 1995, Washington, DC, USA.

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Fromm, Erich. Escape from Freedom. Farrar & Rinehart, 1941, foreword.

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Crevecoeur, Michel Guillaume Jean [published as J. Hector St. John]. "What Is an American?" Letters from an American Farmer. London: Davies & Davies, 1782.

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Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John. "Letters From an American Farmer." Letters From an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America, edited by Albert E. Stone. Penguin Classics, 1981.