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Ooh, child, things are gonna get easier
Ooh child, things'll get brighter.

The Five Stairsteps

Ooh Child (song)

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Vincent, Stan. "O-o-h Child." Performed by Five Stairsteps. Stairsteps. Buddah Records, 1970.

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Animal House. Directed by John Landis, Universal Pictures, 1978.

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Warhol, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975, ch. 4.

The world is what it is.

V.S. Naipaul

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Naipaul, V. S. A Bend in the River. Alfred A Knopf, 1979, pt. 1.

Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go
I wanna be sedated
Nothing to do, nowhere to go
I wanna be sedated.

Ramones

I Wanna Be Sedated

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Ramone, Joey and Dee Dee Ramone and Johnny Ramone. "I Wanna Be Sedated." Performed by Ramones. Road to Ruin. Sire Records, 1978.

What a long, strange trip it's been.

The Grateful Dead

Truckin'

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Hunter, Robert. "Truckin'." Performed by The Grateful Dead. American Beauty. Warner Records, 1970.

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Joplin, Janis. Quoted in The New Yorker Magazine. 14 Aug. 1971.

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Sontag, Susan. Journal entry. 15 Oct. 1973.

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Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Pan Books, 1979, ch. 16.

Follow the money.

All The President's Men

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All the President's Men. Directed by Alan J. Pakula. Wildwood Enterprises, 1976.

If God is male, then the male is God.

Mary Daly

Beyond God the Father

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Daly, Mary. Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation. Beacon Press, 1973, ch. 1.

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A Clockwork Orange. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Polaris Productions/Hawk Films, 1971.

Love is two people mutually feeding each other, not one living on the soul of the other like a ghoul.

Bessie Head

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Head, Bessie. A Question of Power. Davis-Poynter, 1973, pt. 1.

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The Exorcist. Directed by William Friedkin, Hoya Productions, 1973.

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Anonymous woman quoted in Fear of Flying, written by Erica Jong. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.

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The Warrors. Directed by Walter Hill, Lawrence Gordon Productions, 1979.

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Vidal, Gore. Quoted in "Behind the Face of the Gifted Bitch" by Susan Barnes. The Sunday Times Magazine, 16 Sept. 1973.

The Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.

George McGovern

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McGovern, George. Speech at the University of Oxford. 21 Jan. 1973, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK. Lecture.

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Le Guin, Ursula K. The Lathe of Heaven. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. Originally published in Amazing Stories, Mar. 1971 and May 1971.