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West, Mae. Goodness Had Nothing to Do with It: The Autobiography of Mae West. Prentice Hall, 1959, ch. 21.

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Hammerstein, Oscar, II. "My Favorite Things." The Sound of Music. Composed by Richard Rodgers. 1959, Shubert Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

I like to find
what's not found
at once, but lies
within something of another nature
in repose, distinct.

Denise Levertov

Pleasures

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Levertov, Denise. "Pleasures." With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads. New Directions Publishing, 1959, I. 1.

We will all go together when we go,
All suffused with an incandescent glow.

Tom Lehrer

We Will All Go Together When We Go

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Lehrer, Tom. "We Will All Go Together When We Go." An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer. Lehrer Records/Reprise Records/Warner Records, 1959.

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

Jacques Barzun

The House of Intellect

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Barzun, Jacques. The House of Intellect. Harper & Brothers, 1959, ch. 6.

There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

Eugene Ionesco

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Ionesco, Eugene. Rhinoceros. 1959, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany, act 1.

The moment I meet an attractive woman, I have to start pretending I have no desire to make love to her.

North by Northwest

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North by Northwest. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1959.

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Schulz, Charles M. Peanuts. Comic strip. 12 Nov. 1959.

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Ben-Hur. Directed by William Wyler, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1959.

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Ben-Hur. Directed by William Wyler, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1959.

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"Escape Clause." The Twilight Zone, written by Rod Serling, directed by Mitchell Leisen, season 1, episode 6, Cayuga Productions and CBS Television Network, 1959.

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Steinbeck, John. Letter to Adlai Stevenson. 5 Nov. 1959.

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Popper, Karl. Logik der Forschung [The Logic of Research]. Julius Springer, 1934, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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Popper, Karl. The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Routledge, 2002, pt. 1, ch. 1.

In those days, when every male who could stand half-way erect was being shipped to Verdun to undergo a radical change of posture from the vertical to the eternal horizontal.

Günter Grass

The Tin Drum

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Die Blechtrommel [The Tin Drum]. Directed by Volker Schlöndorff. Franz Seitz Filmproduktion/Bioskop Film, 1959.

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Hart, Moss. Act One. Random House, 1959, pt. 2.

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Some Like it Hot. Directed by Billy Wilder, The Mirisch Company, 1959.

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"I Wanna Be Loved By You." Some Like it Hot. Directed by Billy Wilder, The Mirisch Company, 1959.

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Some Like it Hot. Directed by Billy Wilder, The Mirisch Company, 1959.

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Ben-Hur. Directed by William Wyler, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1959.

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Some Like it Hot. Directed by Billy Wilder, The Mirisch Company, 1959.