“if you'e going to do something, darling, then do it all the way.”

Source: The Complete Short Stories

Section 3
The Einstein Intersection (1967)

Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C6K0umwZwo by Diane Sawyer (1994)

[199710221859.LAA24889@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997

"Nadine (Is It You?)" (1964)
Song lyrics

Opening lines
The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)
Context: The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children’s games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games to which it is most attached is called “Keep to-morrow dark,” and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt) “Cheat the Prophet.” The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. They then go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun.
For human beings, being children, have the childish wilfulness and the childish secrecy. And they never have from the beginning of the world done what the wise men have seen to be inevitable.

Source: It Happened One Autumn

As quoted in "My Date With Rummy: Now 84, The Former Secretary Of Defense Is As Wily As Ever" https://taskandpurpose.com/donald-rumsfeld-secretary-defense (12 June 2017), by Adam Linehan, Task & Purpose
2010s

Source: Walden