“Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.”
"Letters from Zedelghem", p. 75
Cloud Atlas (2004)
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"The Sensual World"; The lyrics of this song are derived from the last lines of Ulysses by James Joyce. Kate had initially wanted to set much of Molly Bloom's Soliloquy to music, just as Joyce had written it, but when the Joyce estate refused, she altered it enough as to not infringe on copyright. As she explained it in an interview: "The song was saying "Yes, Yes" and when I asked for permission they said "No! No!".
Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
Source: Pussy, King of the Pirates

“Halt Halt," said Gilan stepping out into the open.”
Source: The Ruins of Gorlan

“Schmendrick stepped out into the open and said a few words.”
The Last Unicorn (1968)
Context: Schmendrick stepped out into the open and said a few words. They were short words, undistinguished either by melody or harshness, and Schmendrick himself could not hear them for the Red Bull's dreadful bawling. But he knew what they meant, and he knew exactly how to say them, and he knew that he could say them again when he wanted to, in the same way or in a different way. Now he spoke them gently and with joy, and as did so he felt his immortality fall from him like an armour, or like a shroud.

“Has not authority from time immemorial stamped every step of progress as treasonable?”
Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty
“All that I have lost I find at every step and remember that I have lost it.”
Cuanto he perdido lo hallo a cada paso y me recuerda que lo he perdido.
Voces (1943)