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-To be or not to be.
-		-- Shakespeare
-To do is to be.
-		-- Nietzsche
-To be is to do.
-		-- Sartre
-Do be do be do.
-		-- Sinatra
+There is always one thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.
+		-- Joan Didion, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"
 
 
-It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition.  There was once a man
-who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that
-there were too many prehistoric toads in it.
-		-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
+"Speak, thou vast and venerable head," muttered Ahab, "which, though
+ungarnished with a beard, yet here and there lookest hoary with mosses; speak,
+mighty head, and tell us the secret thing that is in thee.  Of all divers,
+thou has dived the deepest.  That head upon which the upper sun now gleams has
+moved amid the world's foundations.  Where unrecorded names and navies rust,
+and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous hold this frigate
+earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the drowned; there, in that awful
+water-land, there was thy most familiar home.  Thou hast been where bell or
+diver never went; has slept by many a sailer's side, where sleepless mothers
+would give their lives to lay them down.  Thou saw'st the locked lovers when
+leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting
+wave; true to each other, when heaven seemed false to them.  Thou saw'st the
+murdered mate when tossed by pirates from the midnight deck; for hours he fell
+into the deeper midnight of the insatiate maw; and his murderers still sailed
+on unharmed -- while swift lightnings shivered the neighboring ship that would
+have borne a righteous husband to outstretched, longing arms.  O head! thou has
+seen enough to split the planets and make an infidel of Abraham, and not one
+syllable is thine!"
+		-- H. Melville, "Moby Dick"