1955

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Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita. Olympia Press, 1955, ch. 1.

If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

Charlie Parker

Hear Me Talkin' to Ya

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Parker, Charlie. Quoted in Hear Me Talkin' to Ya. Written by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff. Rinehart & Company, 1955.

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Feynman, Richard. "The Value of Science." 1955, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, USA.

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Lindbergh, Anne Morrow. Gift from the Sea. Pantheon Books, 1955, ch. 2.

The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of city architecture.

Philip C. Johnson

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Johnson, Philip C. "The Town and the Automobile or the Pride of Elm Street." Writings. Oxford University Press, 1979.

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Amichai, Yehuda. "God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children." Now and in Other Days. 1955.

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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.

Cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

Clifton Fadiman

The Complete Book of Cheese

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Fadiman, Clifton. The Complete Book of Cheese. Gramercy Publishing Company, 1955, introduction.

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Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. George Allen & Unwin, 1955, bk. 6, ch. 9.

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Rebel Without a Cause. Directed by Nicholas Ray, Warner Bros. Pictures, 1955.

All women are stimulated by the news that any wife has left any husband.

Anthony Powell

The Acceptance World

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Powell, Anthony. A Dance to the Music of Time: The Acceptance World. Vol. 3, London: Heinemann, 1955, ch. 4.

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Parker, Charlie. Quoted in Hear Me Talkin' to Ya. Written by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff. Rinehart & Company, 1955.

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Truman, Harry S. Interviewed by Margaret Truman. Person to Person, CBS. 27 May 1955.

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Parkinson, C. Northcote. Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Progress. John Murray, 1958, ch. 1. Originally published in The Economist, Nov. 1955.

If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.

Terry Tempest Williams

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Williams, Terry Tempest. Statement regarding the Utah public lands management act of 1995. 13 July 1995, Washington, DC, USA.

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Lewis, C.S. "16 March 1955." Letters of C.S. Lewis, edited by W.H. Lewis. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1966. Originally from Letter to Mrs. Johnson, 16 Mar. 1955.

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Carson, Rachel. The Edge of the Sea. Houghton Mifflin, 1955, ch. 1.

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Hoffer, Eric. The Passionate State of Mind, and Other Aphorisms. Harper & Row, 1955, no. 33.

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Buckley, William F., Jr. "Our Mission Statement." National Review, 19 Nov. 1955.

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Williams, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Directed by Elia Kazan. Performed by Barbara Bel Geddes and Burl Ives and Ben Gazzara. 24 Mar. 1955, Morosco Theatre, New York City, New York, USA, act 2.

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Williams, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. New Directions, 2004, act 2.