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There is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 11.

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 11.

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I don't see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

Malcolm X

The Ballot or the Bullet

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Malcolm X. "The Ballot or the Bullet." 3 Apr. 1964, Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, OH, USA.

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Malcolm X. "The Ballot or the Bullet." Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements, edited by George Breitman. Grove Press, 1994.

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For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,
Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech
To stir men’s blood. I only speak right on.

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar

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Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, 1599, Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Julius Caesar." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.

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If you can quote the rules, you can fucking obey them.

Tony Soprano

The Sopranos

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"Whoever Did This." The Sopranos, written by David Chase and Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, directed by Tim Van Patten, season 4, episode 9, Chase Films and Home Box Office, 2002.

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Fuck you, fuck your fuckin' pizza, and fuck Frank Sinatra!

Do the Right Thing

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Do the Right Thing. Directed by Spike Lee, 40 Acres and A Mule Filmworks, 1989.

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I never had anyone make me feel as cheap as you did today.

Pretty Woman

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Pretty Woman. Directed by Garry Marshall, Touchstone Pictures, 1990.

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I wanna be loved by you, just you, nobody else but you.

Some Like it Hot

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"I Wanna Be Loved By You." Some Like it Hot. Directed by Billy Wilder, The Mirisch Company, 1959.

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There's a jet stream of bullshit coming out of your mouth, my friend.

Larry David

Curb Your Enthusiasm

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"The Weatherman." Curb Your Enthusiasm, written by Larry David, directed by Robert B. Weide, season 4, episode 4, Home Box Office, 2004.

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If you had it to do all over again, would you make the same choices?

Rounders

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Rounders. Directed by John Dahl, Spanky Pictures, 1998.

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I don’t know how you guys walk around with those things.

Elaine Benes

Seinfeld

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"The Hamptons." Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld and Peter Mehlman, directed by Tom Cherones, season 5, episode 21, Shapiro/West Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, 1994.

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Bald asshole? That’s a hate crime. We're a set, we're a group.

Larry David

Curb Your Enthusiasm

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"Trick or Treat." Curb Your Enthusiasm, written by Larry David, directed by Larry Charles, season 2, episode 3, Home Box Office, 2001.

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What is a man
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 4, sc. 4.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 4.

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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea

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Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

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Nazis. I hate these guys.

Indiana Jones

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Lucasfilm Ltd., 1989.

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Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan

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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil. London: Andrew Crooke, 1651, pt. 1, ch. 13.

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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan, edited by Christopher Brooke. Penguin Classics, 2017, pt. 1, ch. 13.

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Did I tell you how divinely and utterly happy I am?

Breakfast at Tiffany's

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Breakfast at Tiffany's. Directed by Blake Edwards, Jurow-Shepherd/Spinel Entertainment, 1961.

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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise. Scribner, 1920, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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Is it infidelity if you're involved with somebody on email?

You've Got Mail

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You've Got Mail. Directed by Nora Ephron, Lauren Shuler Donner Productions, 1998.

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E’er you remark another’s sin, bid your own conscience look within.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1741.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1741." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

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There is a wisdom of the Head, and...a wisdom of the Heart.

Charles Dickens

Hard Times: For These Times

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Dickens, Charles. "Hard Times: For These Times." Household Words, 22 July 1854, ch. 29.

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Dickens, Charles. Hard Times, edited by Fred Kaplan. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, bk. 3, ch. 1.

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