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The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,
Merrily did we drop
Below the kirk, below the hill,
Below the lighthouse top.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere." Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London: J. & A. Arch, 1798, pt. 6.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 6.

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Knowing who you are is good for one generation only.

Flannery O'Connor

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O'Connor, Flannery. "Everything That Rises Must Converge." New World Writing, 1961.

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All our food: pizza, calzone, buffalo mozzarella, olive oil. These fucks had nothin'. They ate pootsie before we gave them the gift of our cuisine.

Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri

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The Sopranos

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"46 Long." The Sopranos, written by David Chase, directed by Dan Attias, season 1, episode 2, Chase Films and Home Box Office, 1999.

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The isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece!
Where burning Sappho loved and sung,
Where grew the arts of war and peace,
Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!
Eternal summer gilds them yet,
But all, except their sun, is set.

Lord Byron

Don Juan

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Lord Byron. Don Juan. London: John Murray, 1821, canto 3, st. 86.

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Lord Byron. "Don Juan." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 3, st. 86.

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The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime, makes the ridiculous; and one step above the ridiculous, makes the sublime again.

Thomas Paine

The Age of Reason

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Paine, Thomas. The Age of Reason, Part 2. London: H.D. Symonds, 1795.

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Paine, Thomas. "The Age of Reason, Part the Second. Being an Investigation of True and of Fabulous Theology (1795)." Selected Writings of Thomas Paine, edited by Ian Shapiro and Jane E. Calvert. Yale University Press, 2014.

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Women. Can't live with them, can't live without them.

The Shining

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The Shining. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, The Producer Circle Company/Peregrine Productions/Hawk Films, 1980.

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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.

John Keats

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Keats, John. Endymion: A Poetic Romance. London: Taylor & Hessey, 1818, bk. 1, l. 1.

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Keats, John. "Endymion." John Keats: The Major Works, edited by Elizabeth Cook. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 1, I. 1.

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To me America used to be a place that made steel and cars and had giant department stores. Now basically we produce amateur talent and people that judge amateur talent.

Jerry Seinfeld

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Seinfeld, Jerry. "Howard Stern - The Last Days of Howard Stern." Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, directed by Jerry Seinfeld, season 3, episode 7, Sony Pictures Television, Netflix, 6 Feb. 2014.

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The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, however persistent.

Albert Einstein

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Einstein, Albert. Quoted in Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology, by Max Jammer. Princeton University Press, 1999. Originally from Letter to Michaelangelo Besso, 21 Mar. 1955.

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My calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you’re gonna see some serious shit.

Back to the Future

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Back to the Future. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, Amblin Entertainment, 1985.

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When you’re in a relationship, you’re in a band. And when you’re in a band you have roles that you play in the band. Sometimes you sing lead, and sometimes you’re on tambourine.

Chris Rock

Tamborine

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Rock, Chris. Chris Rock: Tamborine. Netflix, 14 Feb. 2018.

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Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

Joyce Carol Oates

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Oates, Joyce Carol. On Boxing. Dolphin/Doubleday, 1987.

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The Godhead is broken like bread. We are the pieces.

W.H. Auden

Herman Melville

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Auden, W. H. "Herman Melville." Another Time. Faber and Faber/Random House, 1940.

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Make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us.

David Foster Wallace

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Wallace, David Foster. "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction." The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1993.

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Wallace, David Foster. "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction." A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments. Back Bay Books, 1998.

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