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So take a good look at my face.
You'll see my smile looks out of place.
If you look closer, it's easy to trace
The tracks of my tears.

The Miracles

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The Tracks of My Tears

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Robinson, Smokey and Pete Moore and Marv Tarplin. "The Tracks of My Tears." Performed by The Miracles. Going to a Go-Go. Tamla Records, 1965.

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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

Phyllis Diller

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Diller, Phyllis. Phyllis Diller's Household Hints. Doubleday, 1966.

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Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded, and some men never leave the country, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.

John F. Kennedy

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Kennedy, John F. News conference about inequality in military service. 21 Mar. 1962, Washington, DC, USA.

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Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye and sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him and it was still hot.

Maurice Sendak

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Where the Wild Things Are

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Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. Harper & Row, 1963.

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Economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.

Joan Robinson

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Robinson, Joan. "Metaphysics, Morals and Science." Economic Philosophy. C. A. Watts and Co., 1962.

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Dear Mrs., Mr., Miss, or Mr. And Mrs. Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father, or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action.

Joseph Heller

Catch-22

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Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. Simon & Schuster, 1961, ch. 31.

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Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terre... These form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known... This is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.

Vladimir Nabokov

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Nabokov, Vladimir. Quoted in The New York Times. 21 July 1969.

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Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.

David Lodge

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Lodge, David. The British Museum is Falling Down. MacGibbon & Kee, 1965, ch. 4.

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The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that is, has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.

Valerie Solanas

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S.C.U.M. Manifesto

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Solanas, Valerie. S.C.U.M. Manifesto. Self-published, 1967.

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To be a slave was to be a human being under conditions in which that humanity was denied. They were not slaves. They were people. Their condition was slavery.

Julius Lester

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To Be a Slave

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Lester, Julius. To Be a Slave. Dial Books for Young Readers, 1968, ch. 1.

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My alma mater was books.

Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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Malcolm X. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley. Grove Press, 1965.

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I don't see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

Malcolm X

The Ballot or the Bullet

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Malcolm X. "The Ballot or the Bullet." 3 Apr. 1964, Cory Methodist Church, Cleveland, OH, USA.

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Malcolm X. "The Ballot or the Bullet." Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements, edited by George Breitman. Grove Press, 1994.

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Did I tell you how divinely and utterly happy I am?

Breakfast at Tiffany's

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Breakfast at Tiffany's. Directed by Blake Edwards, Jurow-Shepherd/Spinel Entertainment, 1961.

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I see friends shaking hands, saying, 'How do you do.' They're really saying, 'I love you.'

Louis Armstrong

What a Wonderful World

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Armstrong, Louis. What a Wonderful World. Written by George Douglas and George David Weiss. ABC Records, 1967.

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Red wine with fish. Well, that should have told me something.

James Bond

From Russia with Love

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From Russia with Love. Directed by Terence Young, Eon Productions, 1963.

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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Betty Friedan

The Feminine Mystique

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Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. W. W. Norton & Company, 1963, ch. 14.

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Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it.

Spartacus

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Spartacus. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Bryna Productions, 1960.

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You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing", and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself and it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

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Breakfast at Tiffany's. Directed by Blake Edwards, Jurow-Shepherd/Spinel Entertainment, 1961.

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We choose to go to the moon.

John F. Kennedy

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Kennedy, John F. Address on nation's space effort. 12 Sept. 1962, Rice University Stadium, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.

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Promise me one thing: don't take me home until I'm drunk—until I'm very drunk indeed.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

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Breakfast at Tiffany's. Directed by Blake Edwards, Jurow-Shepherd/Spinel Entertainment, 1961.

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