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A Streetcar Named Desire. Directed by Elia Kazan. Warner Bros., 1951.

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Touch of Evil. Directed by Orson Welles, Universal-International, 1958.

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1953, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

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Baldwin, James. "Me and My House." Harper's Magazine, Nov. 1955.

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Baldwin, James. "Notes of a Native Son." James Baldwin: Collected Essays, edited by Toni Morrison. Library of America, 1998.

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Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. George Allen & Unwin, 1954, ch. 3.

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Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

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Det sjunde inseglet [The Seventh Seal]. Directed by Ingmar Bergman, Svensk Filmindustri, 1957.

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Rebel Without a Cause. Directed by Nicholas Ray, Warner Bros. Pictures, 1955.

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

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Baldwin, James. "Many Thousands Gone." Partisan Review, Nov. 1951 - Dec. 1951.

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Baldwin, James. "Many Thousands Gone." James Baldwin: Collected Essays, edited by Toni Morrison. Library of America, 1998.

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Einstein, Albert. Quoted in Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology, by Max Jammer. Princeton University Press, 1999. Originally from Letter to Michaelangelo Besso, 21 Mar. 1955.

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On the Waterfront. Directed by Elia Kazan, Horizon Pictures, 1954.

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Satchel Paige

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Page, Satchel. Quoted in "The Fabulous Satchel Page." Written by Richard Donovan. Collier's, 5 Jun. 1953.

Life is what we make of it. Always has been, always will be.

Grandma Moses

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Grandma Moses. Grandma Moses: My Life's History, edited by Otto Kallir. Harper & Brothers, 1951.

It's a pity you don't have as much charm as you have persistence.

An American in Paris

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An American in Paris. Directed by Vincente Minnelli, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1951.

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Plath, Sylvia. Letter to unknown recipient. June or July 1953.

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Some Like it Hot. Directed by Billy Wilder, The Mirisch Company, 1959.

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

Jelly Roll Morton

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Morton, Jelly Roll. Quoted in Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz", written by Alan Lomax. Grosset & Dunlap, 1950.

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Sunset Boulevard. Directed by Billy Wilder, Paramount Pictures, 1950.