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I never liked seein' strangers, guess it's cause no stranger ever good news to me.

Red River

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Red River. Directed by Howard Hawks, Monterey Productions, 1948.

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Goddammit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like living in jail.

Richard Wright

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Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940, bk. 1.

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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

C.S. Lewis

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Lewis, C. S. "Answers to Questions on Christianity." God in the Dock. Eerdmans, 1970, pt. 1, ch. 4, q. 1. Originally presented as the speech, "One Man Brains Trust" 18 Apr. 1944, Head Office of Electric and Musical Industries Ltd., Hayes, England, UK, q. 1.

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He had a theory that if you should find one perfect thing, or place or person, you should stick to it. Do you think that's very silly?

Rebecca

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Rebecca. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Selznick International Pictures, 1940.

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All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Campaign speech in Boston. 4 Nov. 1944, Fenway Park, Boston, MA, USA.

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We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

T.S. Eliot

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Eliot, T. S. "Little Gidding." New English Weekly, Oct. 1942, pt. 5.

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One can't love humanity. One can only love people.

Graham Greene

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Greene, Graham. The Ministry of Fear. William Heinemann, 1943, bk. 3, ch. 2.

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Just old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, you don't look forward to being cured of.

Citizen Kane

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Citizen Kane. Directed by Orson Welles. RKO Radio Pictures/Mercury Productions, 1941.

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I can remember absolutely everything, young man, that's my curse. That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory.

Citizen Kane

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Citizen Kane. Directed by Orson Welles. RKO Radio Pictures/Mercury Productions, 1941.

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He felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness—the sense that that is where we really belong.

Graham Greene

The Heart of the Matter

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Greene, Graham. The Heart of the Matter. William Heinemann/The Viking Press, 1948, bk. 2, pt. 2, sec. 1.

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Puritanism—The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

H.L. Mencken

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Mencken, Henry Louis. "Arcana Coelestia." A Mencken Chrestomathy. Alfred A. Knopf, 1949, ch. 30.

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Water's precious. Sometimes it can be more precious than gold.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Directed by John Huston, Warner Bros.-First National, 1948.

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Who knows when some slight shock, disturbing the delicate balance between social order and thirsty aspiration, shall send the skyscrapers in our cities toppling?

Richard Wright

Native Son

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Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940, bk. 3.

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All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

Clement Greenberg

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Greenberg, Clement. The Nation. 7 Apr. 1945.

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Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.

Raymond Chandler

The Simple Art of Murder

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Chandler, Raymond. "The Simple Art of Murder." Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1944.

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Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession. It becomes a bore.

Anaïs Nin

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Nin, Anaïs. "December, 1941." The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. 3, 1939-1944, edited by Gunther Stuhlmann. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1969.

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We all know that books burn-yet we have the greater knowledge that books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny of every kind. In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Message to American Booksellers Association. Annual banquet of the American Booksellers Association. 6 May 1942, Astor Hotel, New York City, NY, USA.

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