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->''[Poster for ''Film/JesseJamesMeetsFrankensteinsDaughter'' comes up on screen]''\\
'''Juice:''' whooooa this one's a classic! i love this movie, y'all gotta see it\\
'''Ten:''' You actually watched this movie?\\
'''Juice:''' oh ABSOLUTELY not\\
it's just my favorite movie is all
-->-- ''WebOriginal/TwentyThousandTwenty'', Chapter 5
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-->-- "Boston Pilot", 14 March 1857

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-->-- "Boston Pilot", [[https://newspapers.bc.edu/?a=d&d=bpilott18570314-01.2.38&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- 14 March 1857
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->''A Neapolitan fought fourteen duels to prove that [[Creator/DanteAlighieri Dante]] was a greater poet than Ariosto. At his death-bed, his confessor desired him, by way of penance, to acknowledge the superiority of Ariosto. “Father,” answered the dying man, “ to tell the truth, I never read either Dante or Ariosto.”''
-->-- "Boston Pilot", 14 March 1857
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->'''Benoit Blanc:''' Harlan's detectives, they dig, they rifle and root. Truffle pigs. I anticipate the terminus of ''Literature/GravitysRainbow''.\\
'''Marta Cabrera:''' ''Gravity's Rainbow''.\\
'''Benoit Blanc:''' It's a novel.\\
'''Marta Cabrera:''' Yeah, I know. I haven't read it though.\\
'''Benoit Blanc:''' Neither have I. Nobody has. But I like the title. It describes the path of a projectile determined by natural law.
-->-- ''Film/KnivesOut''
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-> "How can they respect my culture if they haven't seen it?"
--> '''Pocahontas''', ''WesternAnimation/PocahontasIIJourneyToANewWorld''

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'''Pocahontas''', ''WesternAnimation/PocahontasIIJourneyToANewWorld''
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->''"This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it."''
-->-- '''Creator/WilliamGoldman''', ''Literature/ThePrincessBride''
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--> '''Pocahontas''', ''Disney/PocahontasIIJourneyToANewWorld''

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--> '''Pocahontas''', ''Disney/PocahontasIIJourneyToANewWorld''
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-->-- '''@thealmightygod''', {{Twitter}} account

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-->-- '''@thealmightygod''', {{Twitter}} Website/{{Twitter}} account
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-> "How can they respect my culture if they haven't seen it?"
--> '''Pocahontas''', ''Disney/PocahontasIIJourneyToANewWorld''
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-->-- '''Paul Valery''', ''[[LongRunner In Search of Lost Time]]'', Proust's MagnumOpus, has ''seven volumes and almost three thousand pages''.

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-->-- '''Paul Valery''', Proust's ''[[LongRunner In Search of Lost Time]]'', Proust's MagnumOpus, Time]]'' has ''seven volumes and almost three thousand pages''.
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->''"I love this book so much I nearly read it!"''
-->-- '''Justin Long''' on the cover of John Hodgman's ''Literature/MoreInformationThanYouRequire''

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->''"I love this ->''"'Classic.' A book so much I nearly read it!"''
which people praise and don't read."''
-->-- '''Justin Long''' on the cover of John Hodgman's ''Literature/MoreInformationThanYouRequire''
'''Creator/MarkTwain'''
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->''"''Series/TheWire'' has done what no other television program has come close to achieving—namely, presenting the life of a decaying American city and doing so with the scope and moral vision of great literature ... I really wish I had HBO."''
-->-- '''TheOnion''', [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/tv-critics-admit-to-never-having-watched-the-wire,5990/ "TV Critics Admit to Never Having Watched The Wire"]]

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->''"''Series/TheWire'' has done what no other television program has come close to achieving—namely, presenting the life of a decaying American city and doing so with the scope and moral vision of great literature ...literature... I really wish I had HBO."''
-->-- '''TheOnion''', '''Website/TheOnion''', [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/tv-critics-admit-to-never-having-watched-the-wire,5990/ "TV Critics Admit to Never Having Watched The Wire"]]



-->-- Justin Long on the cover of John Hodgman's MoreInformationThanYouRequire

->(Excerpt of [[StealthInsult a homage]] to Creator/MarcelProust a year after his death in 1922): ''Although I hardly know a single volume of the great work of Marcel Proust […], I am nevertheless keenly aware, from the little I’ve had the leisure to read in'' [[DoorStopper In Search of Lost Time]], ''that literature has just experienced an exceptional loss.''
-->--'''Paul Valery''' (''[[LongRunner In Search of Lost Time]]'', Proust MagnumOpus, has ''seven volumes, almost 3 thousand pages''.

->''"To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click "I agree."''
-->'''@thealmightygod''', {{Twitter}} account

->''[Creator/MorganFreeman] was the narrator in Film/MarchOfThePenguins. Powerful, powerful piece of cinema. Never saw it.''
-->--'''Roger''', ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad''

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-->-- Justin Long '''Justin Long''' on the cover of John Hodgman's MoreInformationThanYouRequire

''Literature/MoreInformationThanYouRequire''

->(Excerpt of [[StealthInsult a homage]] to Creator/MarcelProust a year after his death in 1922): ''Although ''"Although I hardly know a single volume of the great work of Marcel Proust […], Creator/MarcelProust [...], I am nevertheless keenly aware, from the little I’ve I've had the leisure to read in'' [[DoorStopper in ''[[DoorStopper In Search of Lost Time]], ''that Time]]'', that literature has just experienced an exceptional loss.''
-->--'''Paul Valery''' (''[[LongRunner
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-->-- '''Paul Valery''', ''[[LongRunner
In Search of Lost Time]]'', Proust Proust's MagnumOpus, has ''seven volumes, volumes and almost 3 three thousand pages''.

->''"To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click "I agree.'I agree'."''
-->'''@thealmightygod''', -->-- '''@thealmightygod''', {{Twitter}} account

->''[Creator/MorganFreeman] ->''"[Creator/MorganFreeman] was the narrator in Film/MarchOfThePenguins.''Film/MarchOfThePenguins''. Powerful, powerful piece of cinema. Never saw it.''
-->--'''Roger''',
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-->-- '''Roger''',
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->''[MorganFreeman] was the narrator in MarchOfThePenguins. Powerful, powerful piece of cinema. Never saw it.''
-->--'''Roger''', ''AmericanDad''

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->''[MorganFreeman] ->''[Creator/MorganFreeman] was the narrator in MarchOfThePenguins.Film/MarchOfThePenguins. Powerful, powerful piece of cinema. Never saw it.''
-->--'''Roger''', ''AmericanDad''
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->''[MorganFreeman] was the narrator in MarchOfThePenguins. Powerful, powerful piece of cinema. Never saw it.''
-->--'''Roger''', ''AmericanDad''
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->(Excerpt of [[StealthInsult a homage]] to MarcelProust a year after his death in 1922): ''Although I hardly know a single volume of the great work of Marcel Proust […], I am nevertheless keenly aware, from the little I’ve had the leisure to read in'' [[DoorStopper In Search of Lost Time]], ''that literature has just experienced an exceptional loss.''

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->(Excerpt of [[StealthInsult a homage]] to MarcelProust Creator/MarcelProust a year after his death in 1922): ''Although I hardly know a single volume of the great work of Marcel Proust […], I am nevertheless keenly aware, from the little I’ve had the leisure to read in'' [[DoorStopper In Search of Lost Time]], ''that literature has just experienced an exceptional loss.''
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->''"To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click "I agree."''
-->'''@thealmightygod''', {{Twitter}} account
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->''"''TheWire'' has done what no other television program has come close to achieving—namely, presenting the life of a decaying American city and doing so with the scope and moral vision of great literature ... I really wish I had HBO."''

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->''"''TheWire'' ->''"''Series/TheWire'' has done what no other television program has come close to achieving—namely, presenting the life of a decaying American city and doing so with the scope and moral vision of great literature ... I really wish I had HBO."''
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-->--'''Paul Valery''' (''[[LongRunner In Search of Lost Time'']], Proust MagnumOpus, has ''seven volumes, almost 3 thousand pages''.

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-->--'''Paul Valery''' (''[[LongRunner In Search of Lost Time'']], Time]]'', Proust MagnumOpus, has ''seven volumes, almost 3 thousand pages''.
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->(Excerpt of [[StealthInsult a homage]] to MarcelProust a year after his death in 1922): ''Although I hardly know a single volume of the great work of Marcel Proust […], I am nevertheless keenly aware, from the little I’ve had the leisure to read in'' [[DoorStopper In Search of Lost Time]], ''that literature has just experienced an exceptional loss.''
-->--'''Paul Valery''' (''[[LongRunner In Search of Lost Time'']], Proust MagnumOpus, has ''seven volumes, almost 3 thousand pages''.

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-->-- Justin Long on the cover of John Hodgman's MoreInformationThanYouRequire

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->''"I love this book so much I nearly read it!"''
-->-- Justin Long on the cover of John Hodgman's MoreInformationThanYouRequire
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-->''"''TheWire'' has done what no other television program has come close to achieving—namely, presenting the life of a decaying American city and doing so with the scope and moral vision of great literature ... I really wish I had HBO."''
--->— '''TheOnion''', [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/tv-critics-admit-to-never-having-watched-the-wire,5990/ "TV Critics Admit to Never Having Watched The Wire"]]

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-->''"''TheWire'' ->''"''TheWire'' has done what no other television program has come close to achieving—namely, presenting the life of a decaying American city and doing so with the scope and moral vision of great literature ... I really wish I had HBO."''
--->— -->-- '''TheOnion''', [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/tv-critics-admit-to-never-having-watched-the-wire,5990/ "TV Critics Admit to Never Having Watched The Wire"]]
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--->— '''TheOnion''', [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/tv-critics-admit-to-never-having-watched-the-wire,5990/ “TV Critics Admit to Never Having Watched ‘The Wire’”]]

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--->— '''TheOnion''', [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/tv-critics-admit-to-never-having-watched-the-wire,5990/ “TV "TV Critics Admit to Never Having Watched ‘The Wire’”]]The Wire"]]
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