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Palahniuk, Chuck. Diary. Doubleday, 2003.

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Faulkner, William. "The Bear." Go Down, Moses. Random House, 1942, pt. 4.

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Conrad, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. Harper & Brothers/Methuen Publishing, 1911, pt. 2, ch. 3.

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Conrad, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. Dover Publications, 2003, pt. 2, ch. 3.

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Butler, Samuel. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, edited by Henry Festing Jones. A. C. Fifield, 1912, ch. 1.

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Proust, Marcel. Le Temps retrouvé [Time Regained]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

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Proust, Marcel. Finding Time Again, edited and translated by Ian Patterson. Penguin Classics, 2023.

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Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

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Forster, E.M. Howards End. Edward Arnold, 1910, ch. 41.

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London, Jack. "The Call of the Wild." The Saturday Evening Post, 1903.

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London, Jack. "The Call of the Wild." The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories. Signet, 2009, ch. 3.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Edna Ferber

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Ferber, Edna. Comment at a round table. Algonquin Round Table. c. 1929, Algonquin Hotel, New York City, NY, USA.

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Chandler, Raymond. Farewell, My Lovely. Alfred A. Knopf, 1940, ch. 13.

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Barrie, James M. Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. Performed by Gerald du Maurier, Nina Boucicault, Joan Burnett, Christine Silver, A.W. Baskcomb, and Alice DuBarry. 27 Dec. 1904, Duke of York's Theatre, Westminster, London, England, UK, act 1.

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Barrie, James M. Peter Pan. Reader's Library Classics, 2022, ch. 3.

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Updike, John. Self-Consciousness: Memoirs. Knopf, 1989, ch. 3.

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Porter, Katherine Anne. Ship of Fools. Little, Brown and Company, 1962, pt. 3.

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Salinger, J. D. "A Girl I Knew." Good Housekeeping, Feb. 1948.

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Mann, Thomas. Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1924, ch. 5.

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Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Everyman's Library, 2005, ch. 5.

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Max Frisch

Homo Faber

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Frisch, Max. Homo faber. Ein Bericht. [Homo faber. A Report.] Abelard-Schuman, 1957.

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Dahl, Roald. Danny, the Champion of the World. Alfred A. Knopf, 1975.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Jean Genet

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Genet, Jean. Un Captif Amoureux [Prisoner of Love]. Paris: Gallimard, 1986.

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Forster, E.M. "Notes on the English Character." Abinger Harvest. Edward Arnold & Co., 1936. Originally published in the Atlantic Monthly, 1920.