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What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

P.D. James

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James, P. D. Quoted in Face Magazine. Dec. 1986.

Norman oughte be iuge in his owne cause.

Reginald Pecock

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Pecock, Reginald. The Repressor of Over Much Blaming of the Clergy. Vol. 2, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860.

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Pecock, Reginald. The Repressor of Over Much Blaming of the Clergy 2 Volume Set, edited by Churchill Babington. Vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Keynes, John Maynard. Memo circulated to British War Cabinet. 15 May 1945.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "Overseas Financial Policy in Stage III (1945)." The Essential Keynes. Penguin, edited by Robert Skidelsky, 2016.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “The Poet.” Essays: Second Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1844.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The Poet (1844)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Hardy, Thomas. "A Pair of Blue Eyes." Tinsley's Magazine, Sept. 1872 - July 1873.

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Hardy, Thomas. A Pair of Blue Eyes. Wordsworth Editions, 1998.

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Hume, David. "Of the Independency of Parliament." Essays, Moral and Political. Edinburgh: A. Kincaid, 1741, no. 8.

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Hume, David. "Of the Independency of Parliament." Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary: Volumes 1 and 2, edited by Tom L. Beauchamp and Mark A Box. Oxford University Press, 2022, pt. 1, no. 4.

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Hardy, Thomas. "Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented." The Graphic, July–Dec. 1891.

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Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D'Urbervilles, edited by Scott Elledge. W. W. Norton & Company, 1990.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter: A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1850, ch. 24.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, edited by Brian Harding. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 24.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

John Updike

Hugging the Shore

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Updike, John. Hugging the Shore. Alfred A. Knopf, 1983, foreword.

Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.

Alasdair Gray

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Gray, Alasdair. Engraved in the Canongate Wall of the Scottish Parliament Building. Edinburgh, Scotland. 2004.

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Robinson, Marilynne. Gilead. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.

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Leopold, Aldo. "The Land Ethic." A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There. Oxford University Press, 1949.

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LaFollette, Suzanne. Concerning Women. Albert & Charles Boni, 1926, ch. 1.

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Lebowitz, Fran. "Tips for Teens." Social Studies. Random House, 1981.

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

Allen Saunders

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Saunders, Allen. Quoted in Reader's Digest. Jan. 1957.

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Levi-Strauss, Claude. Tristes Tropiques [Sad Tropics]. Librairie Plon, 1955, pt. 9, ch. 36.

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Levi-Strauss, Claude. Tristes Tropiques, translated by John and Doreen Weightman. Penguin Classics, 2012, pt. 9, ch. 36.

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Casanova, Giacomo. Aus den Memoiren des Venetianers Jacob Casanova de Seingalt [From the Memoirs of the Venetian Jacob Casanova de Seingalt]. Vol. 1, Leipzig: Brodhaus, 1822, preface.

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Casanova, Giacomo. History of My Life, vols. 1-2, translated by Willard R. Trask. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966.

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Wells, Rebecca. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. HarperCollins, 1996, ch. 31.

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Kazantzakis, Nikos. Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Life and State of Alexis Zorba]. Athens: Dimitrakou, 1946, ch. 8.

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Kazantzakis, Nikos. Zorba the Greek, translated by Peter Bien. Simon & Schuster, 2014, ch. 8.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

Annie Proulx

The Shipping News

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Proulx, Annie. The Shipping News. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993, ch. 10.