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It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

Peter De Vries

The Mackerel Plaza

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De Vries, Peter. The Mackerel Plaza. Little, Brown and Company, 1958, ch. 1.

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In those days, when every male who could stand half-way erect was being shipped to Verdun to undergo a radical change of posture from the vertical to the eternal horizontal.

Günter Grass

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The Tin Drum

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Die Blechtrommel [The Tin Drum]. Directed by Volker Schlöndorff. Franz Seitz Filmproduktion/Bioskop Film, 1959.

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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

Aneurin Bevan

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Bevan, Aneurin. The Observer. 6 Dec. 1953.

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We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

Lawrence Durrell

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Durrell, Lawrence. Justine. Faber & Faber/E. P. Dutton, 1957.

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The mystery of life is not solved by success, which is an end in itself, but in failure, in perpetual struggle, in becoming.

Patrick White

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White, Patrick. Voss. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957, ch. 10.

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Time has too much credit... It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

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Compton-Burnett, Ivy. Darkness and Day. David & Charles/Alfred A. Knopf, 1951, ch. 7.

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God is on everyone's side…and, in the last analysis, he is on the side of those with plenty of money and large armies.

Jean Anouilh

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Anouilh, Jean. L'Aloutte [The Lark]. Paris: La Table Ronde, 1953.

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Anouilh, Jean. "The Lark." Anouilh Plays: One: Antigone, Léocadia, The Waltz of the Toreadors, The Lark, and Poor Bitos. Methuen Drama, 1987.

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The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Edward VIII

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Edward VIII. "Edward VIII, Afterwards Duke of Windsor." Look Magazine, 5 Mar. 1957.

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Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Laurens van der Post

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Post, Laurens van der. The Lost World of the Kalahari. William Morrow, 1958, ch. 3.

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You risk your skin catchin' killers and the juries turn 'em loose so they can come back and shoot at ya again. If you're honest, you're poor your whole life, and in the end you wind up dyin' all alone on some dirty street. For what? For nothin'. For a tin star.

High Noon

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High Noon. Directed by Fred Zinnemann. Stanley Kramer Productions, 1952.

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It is closing time in the gardens of the West and from now on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair.

Cyril Connolly

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Connolly, Cyril. Quoted in Horizon. Dec. 1949 - Jan. 1950.

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I consider your crime worse than murder... Who knows but that millions more of innocent people may pay the price of your treason. Indeed, by your betrayal, you undoubtedly have altered the course of history to the disadvantage of our country.

Irving R. Kaufman

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Kaufman, Irving R. Remarks sentencing Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death for espionage of atomic bomb secrets. 5 Apr. 1951, New York, NY, USA.

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For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.

Charles E. Wilson

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Wilson, Charles. "Testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee on his Proposed Nomination for Secretary of Defence." Senate Armed Services Committee meeting. 15 Jan. 1953, Washington, DC, USA.

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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

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Hutchins, Robert Maynard. Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education. Simon and Schuster, 1954.

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The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. It is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized. It is our way of escape from the use of torture.

William O. Douglas

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Douglas, William. An Almanac of Liberty. Doubleday & Co., 1954, p. 238.

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The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.

Moss Hart

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Hart, Moss. Act One. Random House, 1959, pt. 2.

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This book is about the organization man...The people I am talking about...are not the workers, nor are they the white-collar people in the usual, clerk sense of the word. These people only work for the Organization. The ones I am talking about belong to it as well.

William H. Whyte, Jr.

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The Organization Man

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Whyte, William H, Jr. The Organization Man. Simon & Schuster, 1956, ch. 1.

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How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

Aneurin Bevan

In Place of Fear

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Bevan, Aneurin. In Place of Fear. William Heinemann, 1952, ch. 1.

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The identity crisis... Occurs in that period of the life cycle when each of you must forge for himself some central perspective and direction, some working unity, out of the effective remnants of his childhood and the hopes of his anticipated adulthood.

Erik Erikson

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Erikson, Erik. Young Man Luther. W. W. Norton & Company, 1958, ch. 1.

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It's no good trying to fool yourself about love. You can't fall into it like a soft job, without dirtying up your hands. It takes muscle and guts. And if you can't bear the thought of messing up your nice, clean soul, you'd better give up the whole idea of life and become a saint.

John Osborne

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Osborne, John. Look Back in Anger. 1956, Royal Court Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3.

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Osborne, John. Look Back in Anger. Faber & Faber, 2015, act 3.

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