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Baratynsky, Yevgeny. Two Fates. c. 1823.

Harvey, Frederick William. "Ducks." Ducks, and other Verses. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1919, I. 1.

White, E. B. "The Commuter." The New Yorker, c. 1982.

Hawking, Steven. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. Bantam Dell Publishing Group, 1988, conclusion.

Godolphin, Sidney. Song. c. 1712.

Merton, Thomas. No Man Is an Island. Clonmore & Reynolds/Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955.

Anonymous. Quoted in Oklahoma City Star. 1934.

Gellhorn, Martha. "Letter to Sandy Gellhorn, 13 Oct. 1969." Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn, edited by Caroline Moorehead. Holt, 2007. Originally a letter to Sandy Gellhorn, 13 Oct. 1969.

McPhee, John. Basin and Range. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981.

Mencken, Henry Louis. H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: The First, Second, and Third Series, edited by Marion Rodgers. Library of America, 2010, ch. 16, sec. 2. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1919.

Wodehouse, P. G. "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest." Carry On, Jeeves. Herbert Jenkins, 1925. Originally published in Saturday Evening Post, 9 Dec. 1916.

Bukowski, Charles. Interviewed by Elisa Leonelli. 1981.

Havel, Václav. To the Castle and Back. Vintage, 2007.

Stevens, Brooks. Quoted in The Waste Makers, by Vance Packard. Simon & Schuster, 1960, ch. 6.

Wolfe, Tom. The Bonfire of the Vanities. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987.

Grimald, Nicholas. Of Friendship. c. 1557.

Havel, Václav. Pokoušení [Temptation]. 22 May 1986, Burgtheater, Vienna, Austria.