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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedys murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out. – Lance Morrow

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