Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

Chinatown

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Topic

Effects of time

Speaker

Noah Cross

Actor

John Huston

Source

Chinatown

Medium

Film

Genre

Neo-noir Mystery (film) Mystery

Language

English

Time

1974 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Chinatown. Directed by Roman Polanski, Long Road Productions/Robert Evans Company, 1974.

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Language
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Time
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Citation

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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

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Author

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Source
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Medium
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Language
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Time
1860 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni. Vol. 2, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860, ch. 24.

Current Citation

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun, edited by Susan Manning. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 24.