Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.

Taxi Driver

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Topic

Authoritarianism Decadence

Speaker

Travis Bickle

Actor

Robert De Niro

Source

Taxi Driver

Medium

Film

Genre

Neo-noir Crime (film) Crime

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Taxi Driver. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Bill/Phillips Productions/Italo/Judeo Productions, 1976.

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There was a famous story, some reporters asked a door gunner, "How can you shoot women and children?" and he'd answered, "It's easy, you just don't lead 'em so much."

Michael Herr

Dispatches

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Topic
Vietnam War

Author

Michael Herr
Source
Dispatches
Genre
War literature War
Language
English
Time
1977 1970s 20th century
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Citation

Herr, Michael. "Breathing In." Dispatches. Alfred A. Knopf, 1977, pt. 3.

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Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

Edmund Burke

Reflections on the Revolution in France

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Topic
Revolution French Revolution

Author

Edmund Burke
Source
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Genre
Political literature
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1790 1790s 18th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. London: James Dodsley, 1790.

Current Citation

Burke, Edmund. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.