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Clarke, Arthur C. "Sentinel of Eternity." Ten Story Fantasy. Avon Periodicals, 1951.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Georges Duhamel

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Duhamel, Georges. Le Desert de Bievre [The Desert of Bièvres]. Mercure de France, 1937, ch. 2.

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Clare, John. "I Am." The Bedford Times, 1 Jan. 1848, I. 13.

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Clare, John. "I Am." John Clare: Major Works, edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 13.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

Nelson Algren

A Walk on the Wild Side

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Algren, Nelson. A Walk on the Wild Side. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956, pt. 3.

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Chomsky, Noam. "Noam Chomsky on Anarchism, Marxism and Hope for the Future." Interviewed by Kevin Doyle. Red and Black Revolution, May 1995.

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfilment.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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Muggeridge, Malcolm. Tread Softly, for You Tread on My Jokes. Collins, 1966.

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Shakespeare, William. Henry IV, Part 1. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1597, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "The First Part of Henry the Fourth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 3.

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Parkinson, C. Northcote. Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Progress. John Murray, 1958, ch. 10. Originally published as "Pension Point" in The Economist, c. 1958.

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Mumford, Lewis. The Brown Decades: A Study of the Arts in America. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931.

"Thou shalt not" might reach the head, but it takes "Once upon a time" to reach the heart.

Philip Pullman

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Pullman, Philip. "Opinion: The moral's in the story, not the stern lecture." The Independent, 17 July 1996.

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Drummond, Henry. The Ascent of Man. New York City: James Pott & Co., 1894, ch. 10.

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Huxley, Aldous. The Doors of Perception. Chatto & Windus/Harper & Row, 1954.

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Trevelyan, George Macaulay. English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries Chaucer to Queen Victoria. Longmans, Green and Company, 1942, introduction.

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Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Pantheon Books, 1949, prologue.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. Religio Medici. London, 1643, pt. 1, sect. 6.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Religio Medici (1643)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, pt. 1, sect. 6.

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Thomas, Edward. "Lights Out." Poems. Henry Holt, 1917, I. 1.

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Thomas, Edward. "Lights Out." Selected Poems of Edward Thomas. Faber & Faber, 2011, I. 1.

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Hoffer, Eric. Reflections on the Human Condition. Harper & Row, 1973, no. 172.

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Addison, Joseph. The Spectator. London, 5 Sept. 1712, no. 476.

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Kingsley, Charles. "The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby." Macmillan's Magazine, 1862-1863.

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Kingsley, Charles. The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby, edited by Richard D. Beards. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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Heaney, Seamus. The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles - Philoctetes. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1991.