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Barrie, J. M. Quoted in The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean, by R. M. Ballantyne. James Nisbet and Co., 1913, preface.

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Lawrence, D.H. Pansies. Martin Secker, 1929, introduction.

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London, Jack. The Turtles of Tasman. Macmillan, 1916.

The more things change, the more they are the same.

Alphonse Karr

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Karr, Alphonse. Les Guepes. Au Bureau du Figaro, c. 1849.

Beauty can pierce one like a pain.

Thomas Mann

Buddenbrooks

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Mann, Thomas. Buddenbrooks. Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, 1901, pt. 11, ch. 2.

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Mann, Thomas. Buddenbrooks. Dover Publications, 2020, pt. 11, ch. 2.

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London, Jack. Quoted in The Bulletin. 2 Dec. 1916.

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De Cervantes, Miguel. El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha [The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha]. Madrid: Francisco de Robles, 1605.

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De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote, translated and edited by John Rutherford. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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De Cervantes, Miguel. El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha [The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha]. Madrid: Francisco de Robles, 1605.

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De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote, translated and edited by John Rutherford. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Братья Карамазовы [The Brothers Karamazov]." The Russian Messenger, Jan. 1879 - Nov. 1880. Serial.

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Dostoevsky, Feodor. The Brothers Karamazov, translated by David McDuff. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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Tolstoy, Leo. What is Art? London: The Brotherhood Publishing Company, 1898.

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Tolstoy, Leo. What Is Art? Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Penguin Classics, 1996.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925, ch. 1.

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Tolstoy, Leo. "Война и миръ [War and Peace]." The Russian Messenger, 1865-1867. Serial.

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Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Oxford University Press, 2010.

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De Cervantes, Miguel. El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha [The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha]. Madrid: Francisco de Robles, 1605.

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De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote, translated and edited by John Rutherford. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Записки из Мёртвого дома [The House of the Dead]." Vremya, 1860-1862.

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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The House of the Dead, translated by David McDuff. Penguin Classics, 1986.

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Morrison, Toni. Quoted in Essence. Apr. 1984.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 132.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 132.

You can't understand it. You would have to be born there.

William Faulkner

Absalom, Absalom!

On the South.

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Faulkner, William. Absalom, Absalom! Chelsea House Publishers, 1987, p. 85.

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Autobiography. Vol. 1, Harper & Brothers, 1924.

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Twain, Mark. "New York, January 10, 1906." Autobiography of Mark Twain, edited by Harriet E. Smith, Benjamin Griffin, Victor Fischer, Michael Barry Frank, Sharon K. Goetz, Leslie Diane Myrick, and Robert Hirst. Vol. 1, University of California Press, 2010.

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Franzen, Jonathan. The Corrections. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2001.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Notebook entry. 25 Oct. 1836.