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I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Ernest Hemingway

Death in the Afternoon

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Hemingway, Ernest. Death in the Afternoon. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932, ch. 1.

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "El Dorado." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "El Dorado." Essays I: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

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I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.

Graham Greene

The Quiet American

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Greene, Graham. The Quiet American. William Heinemann, 1955, ch. 4, sec. 2.

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Truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 11.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 11.

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Whatever you are, try to be a good one.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Thackeray, William Makepeace. Quoted in A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs, written by Laurence Hutton. London: Harper & Brothers, 1898.

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Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Kundera, Milan. L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]. Gallimard, 1984.

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Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, translated by Michael Henry Heim. Harper Perennial, 2009.

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Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

Mark Twain

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Twain, Mark. The Gorky Incident. 1906.

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Twain, Mark. "The Gorky Incident." Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings, edited by Bernard DeVoto. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2004.

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We think time cannot touch the dead, but it touches their monuments, leaving them snub-nosed and stub-fingered from the accidents and attrition of time.

Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies

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Mantel, Hilary. Bring Up the Bodies. Fourth Estate/Henry Holt and Co., 2012.

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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three.

Joseph Heller

Catch-22

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Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. Simon & Schuster, 1961, ch. 9.

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Some sense of religious mission is part of being American.

John Updike

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Updike, John. Quoted in "God's Country" by Michael Wood. New York Book Review, 29 Feb. 1996.

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In the highlands, in the country places,
Where the old plain men have rosy faces,
And the young fair maidens
Quiet eyes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "In the Highlands, in the Country Places." Songs of Travel and Other Verses. London: Chatto & Windus, 1896.

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Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo....

James Joyce

The Egoist

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Joyce, James. "A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man." The Egoist. 2 Feb. 1914 - 1 Sept. 1915. Serial.

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Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by John Paul Riquelme. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, ch. 1.

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It is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history...and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.

Mark Twain

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Twain, Mark. "Letter III." Letters from the Earth. Harper & Row, 1962.

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Twain, Mark. Letters from the Earth." Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings, edited by Bernard DeVoto. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2004, letter 3.

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