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Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

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Griswold, Alfred Whitney. Address at Yale University. 9 Jun. 1957, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Eric Hoffer

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Hoffer, Eric. The Passionate State of Mind, and Other Aphorisms. Harper & Row, 1955, no. 280.

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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

Rebecca West

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West, Rebecca. The Court and the Castle. Yale University Press, 1957.

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Tragedy plus time equals comedy.

Steve Allen

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Allen, Steve. "Steve Allen's Almanac." Cosmopolitan Magazine, Feb. 1957.

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To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Bernard Baruch

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Baruch, Bernard M. Quoted in Newsweek. 29 Aug. 1955.

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I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him.

Carl Jung

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Jung, Carl. Letter to an unnamed clergyman. 1952.

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These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the scriptural parable, the bland lead the bland.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The Affluent Society

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Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Affluent Society. Houghton Mifflin, 1958, ch. 1, sect. 3.

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There is probably no sensitive heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied at one time or another with his latent homosexuality.

Norman Mailer

The Homosexual Villain

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Mailer, Norman. "The Homosexual Villain." Advertisements for Myself. Harvard University Press, 1959. Originally published in One Magazine, Jan. 1955.

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In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than the glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

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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If anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle.

Nikita Khrushchev

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Khrushchev, Nikita. Quoted in New York Times. 18 Sept. 1955. Originally an impromptu speech at a dinner for visiting West German dignitaries. 17 Sept. 1955, Moscow, Russia.

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The plate that a peasant eats his soup out of is more interesting to me than the ridiculously rich plates of rich people.

Joan Miró

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Miró, Joan. Interviewed by Yvon Taillandier. 1958.

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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Tennessee Williams

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Williams, Tennessee. Camino Real. New Directions, 1953, block 12.

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Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.

William S. Burroughs

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Burroughs, William Seward. The Naked Lunch. Olympia Press/Grove Press, 1959, appendix.

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The novel is an art form and when you use it for anything other than art, you pervert it... If you do manage to use it successfully for social, religious, or other purposes, it is because you make it art first.

Flannery O'Connor

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O'Connor, Flannery. Letter to Father John McCown. 9 May 1956.

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What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garcia Lorca what were you doing down by the watermelons?

Allen Ginsberg

A Supermarket in California

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Ginsberg, Allen. "A Supermarket in California." Howl and Other Poems. City Lights Books, 1956.

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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance—these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Isaiah Berlin

Foreign Affairs

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Berlin, Isaiah. "Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century." Foreign Affairs, Vol. 28, No. 3, Apr. 1950.

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Look, this is just a dirty little village in the middle of nowhere. Nothing that happens here is really important. Now get out.

High Noon

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

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Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Lawrence Durrell

Mountolive

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Durrell, Lawrence. Mountolive. Faber and Faber, 1958.

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You're getting on. You're pushing 30, slugger. You know, it's time to think about getting some ambition.

On the Waterfront

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

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A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

Mistinguett

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Mistinguett. Quoted in "Limelights and Footlights." Written by Hedy Clark. Theatre Arts, 1955.

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