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Cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

Clifton Fadiman

The Complete Book of Cheese

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Fadiman, Clifton. The Complete Book of Cheese. Gramercy Publishing Company, 1955, introduction.

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It will be convenient to have a name for the ideas which are esteemed at any time for their acceptability, and it should be a term that emphasizes this predictability. I shall refer to these ideas henceforth as the conventional wisdom.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The Affluent Society

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Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Affluent Society. Houghton Mifflin, 1958, ch. 2, sect. 1.

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When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

Clifton Fadiman

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Fadiman, Clifton. Any Number Can Play. The World Publishing Company, 1957.

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I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

Robert Mueller

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Mueller, Robert. Quoted in Look Magazine. 5 Mar. 1957.

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There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

Eugene Ionesco

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Ionesco, Eugene. Rhinoceros. 1959, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany, act 1.

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Well, some things a man doesn't get over so easy.

The Quiet Man

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The Quiet Man. Directed by John Ford, Republic Pictures/Argosy Productions Corporation, 1952.

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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. George Allen & Unwin, 1954, ch. 2.

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Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea

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

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I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is 50% illusion.

A Streetcar Named Desire

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

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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

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Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. George Allen & Unwin, 1955, bk. 6, ch. 9.

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No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness.

The Seventh Seal

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

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All I do is dream of you the whole night through.

Singin' in the Rain

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"All I Do Is Dream of You." Singin' in the Rain. Directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, performed by Debbie Reynolds, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1952.

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Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

On the Waterfront

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

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus

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Camus, Albert. Le Mythe de Sisyphe [The Myth of Sisyphus]. Éditions Gallimard, 1942.

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How long does a man spend dying?

Pablo Neruda

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Neruda, Pablo. "Y cuanto vive? [And how long?]." Extravagaria. Losada, 1958.

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Neruda, Pablo. "Y cuanto vive?/And how long?" Extravagaria: A Bilingual Edition, translated by Alistair Reid. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

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Pretty girls make graves.

Jack Kerouac

The Dharma Bums

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Kerouac, Jack. The Dharma Bums. Viking Press, 1958, ch. 5.

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Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same colour as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea

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

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And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

John Steinbeck

East of Eden

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Steinbeck, John. East of Eden. The Viking Press, 1952, ch. 53, pt. 3.

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You have been my friend... That in itself is a tremendous thing.

E. B. White

Charlotte's Web

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White, E. B. Charlotte's Web. Harper & Brothers, 1952, ch. 21.

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The worst have lost their fear and the best have lost their hope.

Hannah Arendt

The Origins of Totalinarianism

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Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Schocken Books, 1951, pt. 3, ch. 12, sec. 3.

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