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In every house of marriage
there's room for an interpreter.

Stanley Kunitz

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Kunitz, Stanley. "Route Six." New England Review, c. 1993.

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He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

W.H. Auden

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Auden, W. H. "Funeral Blues." The Ascent of F6: A Tragedy in Two Acts. Faber & Faber, 1936.

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In time the Rockies may crumble,
Gibraltar may tumble,
They're only made of clay,
But our love is here to stay.

Ira Gershwin

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Gershwin, Ira. "Love is Here to Stay." The Goldwyn Follies. Composed by George Gershwin. Performed by Kenny Baker. Samuel Goldwyn Productions, 1938.

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A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

Marjorie Rawlings

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The Yearling

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Rawlings, Marjorie. The Yearling. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938, ch. 12.

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We have ways to make men talk.

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

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The Lives of a Bengal Lancer. Directed by Henry Hathaway, Paramount Pictures, 1935.

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Once I built a railroad, now it's done.
Brother, can you spare a dime?

Yip Harburg

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Harburg, E. Y. "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" Americana. Composed by Jay Gorney. 1932, Shubert Theatre, New York City, New York, USA.

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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

E.M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster)

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Forster, E.M. "What I Believe." Two Cheers for Democracy. Hogarth Press, 1951. Originally published in the Nation, 16 July 1938.

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There is no easy walk-over to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow again and again before we reach the mountain-tops of our desire.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Nehru, Jawaharlal. "From Lucknow to Tripuri." The Unity of India: Collected Writings, 1937-1940. Lindsay Drummond, 1941.

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For the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time.

Neville Chamberlain

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Chamberlain, Neville. "Peace For Our Time." 30 Sept. 1938, 10 Downing Street, London, England, UK.

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As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don't know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

The Wizard of Oz

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The Wizard of Oz. Directed by Victor Fleming. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939.

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Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.

Carl Jung

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Jung, Carl. "Archaic Man." Modern Man in Search of a Soul, translated by Cary F. Baynes and William Stanley Dell. Kegen Paul, Trenche, Trubner & Co., 1933.

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The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

Carl Jung

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Jung, Carl. "Die Lebenswende." Seelenprobleme der Gegenwart. Rascher, 1931.

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No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Ellen Glasgow

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Glasgow, Ellen. Address in New York. Modern Language Association meeting. 1936, New York, NY, USA.

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Even the most insensitive hit song enthusiast cannot always escape the feeling that the child with a sweet tooth comes to know in the candy store.

Theodor Adorno

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Adorno, Theodor. "Über den Fetischcharakter in der Musik und die Regression des Hörens [On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening]." Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung [Journal of Social Research], 1938.

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Adorno, Theodor. "On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening." Modernism: An Anthology of Documents, edited by Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Jane Goldman and Olga Taxidou. University of Chicago Press, 1998.

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