“we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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Everybody's Political What's What http://books.google.com/books?id=JSwBAAAAMAAJ&q=%22we+have+no+reason+to+suppose+that+we+are+the+Creator's+last+word%22&pg=PA234#v=onepage (1944) <br class="br">1940s and later
Robertson Davies book A Voice from the Attic
A Voice from the Attic (1960)
Context: There is no reason to suppose that people today feel less than their grandfathers, but there is good reason to think that they are less able to read in a way which makes them feel. It is natural for them to blame books rather than themselves, and to demand fiction which is highly peppered, like a glutton whose palate is defective.
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Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) English writer
Fiction, One Hand Clapping (1961)
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This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“To think we could have spared ourselves from living all that we have lived!”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Don Bluth (1937) American animator
DRAGON’S LAIR: An interview with Don Bluth and Gary Goldman https://www.indiewire.com/2015/12/dragons-lair-an-interview-with-don-bluth-and-gary-goldman-122447/ (December 18, 2015)
