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Wear dark clothes after 6 p. M. Eat fresh fish for breakfast when available. Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes premature gray hair. Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the Lord.

John Cheever

The Wapshot Chronicle

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Cheever, John. The Wapshot Chronicle. Harper & Brothers, 1957, ch. 37.

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Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.

Herbert J. Muller

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Muller, Herbert. Uses of the Past: Profiles of Former Societies. Oxford University Press, 1952, ch. 8.

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So close, the Infinitesimal and the Infinite. But suddenly I knew they were really the two ends of the same concept. The unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast eventually meet, like the closing of a gigantic circle.

The Incredible Shrinking Man

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The Incredible Shrinking Man. Directed by Jack Arnold, Universal-International Pictures Co., Inc. 1957.

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I don't believe in surrenders. Nope, I still got my saber, Reverend. Didn't turn it into no plowshare neither.

The Searchers

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The Searchers. Directed by John Ford, C.V. Whitney Pictures, 1956.

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I have learned how to live, how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch. And I will never, never again run away from life. Or from love, either.

Sabrina

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Sabrina. Directed by Billy Wilder, Paramount Pictures, 1954.

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I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged

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Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged. Random House, 1957, pt. 3, ch. 1.

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Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. Remarks at the National Defense Executive Reserve Conference. National Defense Executive Reserve Conference. 14 Nov. 1957, Washington DC, USA.

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I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos.

Frantz Fanon

Black Skin, White Masks

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Fanon, Frantz. Peau noire, masques blancs [Black Skin, White Masks]. Editions du Seuil, 1952, ch. 2.

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For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Theodor Adorno

Minima Moralia

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Adorno, Theodor. Minima Moralia: Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben [Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life]. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1951.

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Adorno, Theodor. Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life, translated by E. F. N. Jephcott. Verso, 2020.

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Let us be frank about it: most of our people have never had it so good.

Harold Macmillan

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Macmillan, Harold. Speech in England. 20 July 1957, Bedford, England, UK.

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I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

William Faulkner

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Faulkner, William. Speech at the Nobel Banquet. Nobel Banquet. 10 Dec. 1950, City Hall, Stockholm, Sweden.

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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.

Boris Pasternak

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Pasternak, Boris. Letter to Nikita Khrushchev. 30 Oct. 1958.

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That's the way the ball bounces.

George Mandel

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Mandel, George. Flee the Angry Strangers. Bobbs-Merrill, 1952.

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Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out and death's the other.

Tennessee Williams

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Williams, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Directed by Elia Kazan. Performed by Barbara Bel Geddes and Burl Ives and Ben Gazzara. 24 Mar. 1955, Morosco Theatre, New York City, New York, USA, act 2.

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