Routine

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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

T.S. Eliot

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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Topic

Routine Coffee Passage of time

Author

T.S. Eliot

Source

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

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Original Citation

Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, June 1915, I. 51.

Current Citation

Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." The Waste Land and Other Poems. Vintage, 2021, I. 51.

Routine is a condition of survival.

Flannery O'Connor

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Topic

Routine Habits

Author

Flannery O'Connor

Source

Letters of Flannery O'Connor

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

O'Connor, Flannery. The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, edited by Sally Fitzgerald. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988, pt. 3. Originally a letter to A, 10 Feb. 1962.

When I got tired, I slept. When I got hungry, I ate. When I had to go, you know, I went.

Forrest Gump

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Topic

Routine Life

Speaker

Forrest Gump

Actor

Tom Hanks

Source

Forrest Gump

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1994 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Forrest Gump. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, The Tisch Company, 1994.

Each morning sees some task begin,
Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night's repose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Knickerbocker

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Daily life Routine

Author

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source

The Village Blacksmith The Knickerbocker

Medium

Poem Magazine

Language

English

Time

1840 1840s 19th century

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Village Blacksmith." The Knickerbocker. New York City: Lewis Gaylord Clark, Nov. 1840, I. 39.

Current Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Village Blacksmith." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems & Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, I. 39.