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Despite the name, the quote need not come from literature ''per se''. The most common non-literary sources for titles are probably songs (see also [[Titled After the Song]]) and political speeches. Many of these quotes will be [[Stock Quotes]]. A subtrope of [[Shout-Out]].
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== [[The Bible]] ==
===
* ''[[The Sandman]]''
** ''More than Rubies'', multi-issue arc (Proverbs 31:10)
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* ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|Uncanny X-Men]]'' #100, "Greater Love Hath No X-Man" (from John 15:13, "Greater love hath no man than this...")
=== Film ===
* ''[[The Seventh Seal]]'' by Ingmar Bergman. The first line in the movie is even someone quoting the Bible passage where the phrase is mentioned. (Revelation 8:1)
* ''Through a Glass Darkly'' (Såsom i en Spegel - 1961) Bergman (1 Corinthians 13:12)
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* ''Joyful Noise'' (Psalms 66:1, 81:1, 95:1, 95:2, 98:4, 98:6, and 100:1)
=== Literature ===
* Stephen Vincent Benét
** ''By the Waters of Babylon'' (Psalm 137)
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* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]:
** ''[[I Will Fear No Evil]]'' (novel) (Psalm 23:4)
** ''[[Stranger in
** ''[[The Number of the Beast]]'' (novel) (Revelation 13:18)
** "[[Let There Be Light]]" (short story) (Genesis 1:3)
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** ''Vengeance Is Mine!'' (Romans 12:19)
* [[Terry Pratchett]], ''[[Discworld]]''
** ''[[
* [[Dorothy L. Sayers]], [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] series
** ''Clouds Of Witness'' (Hebrews 12:1)
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** ''The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth'' (Job 41:14 + 19)
=== Live Action TV ===
* ''[[Babylon 5]]''
** ''In The Beginning'' (movie made from the pilot) (Genesis 1:1 or John 1:1)
** "Revelations"
** "Passing Through Gethsemane" (allusion to Matthew 26:36 or Mark 14:32)
*
** "Valley of Darkness" (Psalms 23:4)
** "Exodus"
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** "Take This Sabbath Day" (Deuteronomy 5:12)
=== Music ===
* White Stripes album "Get Behind Me Satan" (Matthew 16:23)
* The Fiery Furnaces get their name from Daniel 3:6.
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* In an interesting example, the band [[Avenged Sevenfold]] actually takes their ''name'' from Genesis 4:15, and ''[[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]]'' that with the song "Chapter 4."
=== Theater ===
* ''Balm in Gilead'' (Jeremiah 8:22)
* ''The Little Foxes'' (Song of Solomon 2:15)
* ''The Voice of the Turtle'' (Song of Solomon 2:12)
=== Video Games ===
* ''[[
** Zerg mission 8: Eye for an Eye (Exodus 21:24)
* ''Ultimate [[Doom (series)|Doom]]''
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** More of a Literary Allusion Name, but the character Legion is named after a part of Mark 5:9 ("My name is Legion: for we are many.").
=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* ''[[The Meek]]'' (Matthew 5:5)
* ''[[No Rest for The Wicked (webcomic)|No Rest for The Wicked]]'' (Isaiah 48:22 or Isaiah 57:21)
=== [[Web Original]] ===
* [[Whateley Universe]]: the origin novel for Phase has five chapters, titled: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy
=== Western Animation ===
* "Sins of the Father", episode of ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|The New Batman Adventures]]'' (Exodus 20:5 or Deuteronomy 5:9)
* "She of Little Faith", episode of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' ("O ye of little faith," repeated phrase in Matthew)
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== Shakespeare ==
===
* ''[[The Sandman]]''
** "Sound and Fury" (''[[Macbeth]]'' V.i)
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** The above two are directly related to the plays mentioned, even including text from them.
=== Film ===
* ''A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy'', directed by [[Woody Allen]]
* ''[[North by Northwest]]'', directed by [[Alfred Hitchcock]] (''[[Hamlet]]'' II.ii)
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* ''[[What Dreams May Come]]'', 1998 (''[[Hamlet]]'', III.i)
* ''[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country]]'' ("The Undiscovered Country" from ''[[Hamlet]]'', III.i)
* ''[[Tempest (1982 film)|Tempest]]'', 1982, directed by [[Paul Mazursky]]
=== Literature ===
* Stephen Ambrose
** ''Band of Brothers'', [[WW 2]] history book and subsequent TV miniseries (''[[Henry V]]'', IV.iii)
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** ''[[This Rough Magic]]'', novel (''[[The Tempest]]'' V.i)
* Seanan McGuire. All the novels in her [[October Daye]] series have titles taken from Shakespeare's plays. So far these include:
** ''Rosemary and Rue'' (''[[The Winter's
** ''A Local Habitation'' (''[[A Midsummer Night's
** ''An Artificial Night'' (''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' I.i)
** ''Late Eclipses'' (''[[King Lear]]'' I.ii)
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** ''First Gravedigger'', novel (minor character in ''[[Hamlet]]'')
* [[Terry Pratchett]]
** ''[[
* Marcel Proust
** ''Remembrance of Things Past'' (Sonnet 30), English translation of the novel ''A la recherche du temps perdu''. Proust actually objected to the Shakespeare reference in the title, which his publisher insisted on in order to boost sales. Nowadays the title is usually translated literally: "[[In Search Of Lost Time]]".
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* Kate Wilhelm
** ''[[Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang]]'', novel (Sonnet 73)
* [[Philip K.
** "Time Out Of Joint", novel (Hamlet, I.v)
* "The Fault in our Stars", novel by John Green (Julius Ceasar)
=== Live Action TV ===
* ''[[Andromeda]]''
** "All Great Neptune's Ocean" (''[[Macbeth]]'' II.ii)
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** "All That Glitters" (''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'' II.vii)
* ''[[ER]]''
** "[[Love's Labour's
** "Fortune's Fools" (''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' III.i)
** "Such Sweet Sorrow" (''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' II.ii)
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** "The Birnam Wood" (''[[Macbeth]]'' IV.i)
=== Theater ===
* ''[[Kiss Me Kate]]'', Broadway musical (''The Taming of the Shrew'', II.i)
* ''[[Passing Strange]]'', Broadway musical (''[[Othello]]'' I.iii)
* ''[[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead]]'', play by [[Tom Stoppard]] (''[[Hamlet]]'' V.ii)
* ''The Play's the Thing'', comedy by Ferenc Molnar adapted into English by [[P. G.
* ''The Goat or Who Is Sylvia'', play by Edward Albee (''The [[Two Gentlemen of Verona]]'' IV.ii)
=== Video Games ===
* "This Vortal Coil", ''Half-Life'' 2 Episode 2 (play on "this mortal coil" from ''[[Hamlet]]'' III.i)
* ''[[Star Trek]]: [[Judgment Rites]]'''s last two episodes are titled "Though this be Madness" and "Yet There's Method In It" (''[[Hamlet]]'' II.ii)
=== Web Original ===
* ''[[Broken Saints]]'' Chapter 15, entitled "[[The Tempest|Tempest]]"
=== Western Animation ===
* ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]''
** "Much Abu About Something" (''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'')
* ''[[Batman: The
** "Perchance to Dream" (''[[Hamlet]]'' III.i)
* ''[[Gargoyles]]''
** "Enter Macbeth" (''[[Macbeth]]'', various acts and scenes)
** "Ill Met by Moonlight" (''[[A Midsummer Night's
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''
** ''Much Apu About Nothing'' (''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'')
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** "Sound and Fury" (''[[Macbeth]]'' V.i)
=== Other ===
* ''Doctor Who'' audio dramas
** "The Chimes of Midnight" (''[[Henry IV]] Part 2'', III.ii)
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* ''... Nothing Like the Sun'', double album by Sting (Sonnet 130)
* "The Dogs of War", song by Pink Floyd (''[[Julius Caesar (theatre)|Julius Caesar]]'' III.i)
* ''[[Darwin's
== Lord Acton ==
=== Comic Books ===
* ''Absolute Power'', the Marvel [[Ultimate Universe]]/Squadron Supreme crossover miniseries.
=== Literature ===
* ''Absolute Power'', novel by David Baldacci, later made into a movie starring [[Clint Eastwood]]
=== Live-Action TV ===
* "Absolute Power", ''Stargate SG-1'' episode (letter to Mandell Creighton)
=== Radio ===
* ''[[Absolute Power (radio)|Absolute Power]]'', radio show
== Douglas Adams ==
=== Live-Action TV ===
* "An Intern's Guide to the Galaxy", ''[[ER]]'' episode (play on title of ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'')
== John Quincy Adams ==
=== Live-Action TV ===
* "The Ensigns of Command", ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode ("The Wants of Man", poem)
== Aeschylus ==
=== Live-Action TV ===
* "Prometheus Unbound", ''Stargate SG-1'' episode (title of play)
=== Theatre ===
* ''Prometheus Unbound'', play by Percy Shelley
=== Western Animation ===
* "Prometheus Unbound", ''[[Beast Machines]]'' episode
== Archimedes ==
=== [[Literature]] ===
* ''[[The Sand-Reckoner]]'', novel by Gillian Bradshaw (title of mathematical treatise)
== [[Aristotle]] ==
===Comic Books===
== Neil Armstrong ==
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* "One Small Step", episode of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' (sentence said upon landing on the moon)
* "One Giant Leap", episode of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' (sentence said upon landing on the moon)
* "One Small Step" and "One Giant Leap", episodes of ''[[Eureka]]''
== Isaac Asimov ==
=== Literature ===
* The titles of ''In Memory Yet Green'' and ''In Joy Still Felt'' -- a two-volume autobiography -- were drawn by the author from a poem by [[Isaac Asimov|Asimov]]. It's something of a [[Zig-Zagging Trope]], though, since it's ''Asimov's'' autobiography.
== James Aubrey ==
=== Comic Books ===
* ''Brief Lives'', multi-issue ''[[The Sandman]]'' arc and subsequent single-volume collection (title of biography collection)
== The Bhagavad Gita ==
=== Literature ===
* ''[[Known Space|Destroyer Of Worlds]]'', by [[Larry Niven]]
=== Live-Action TV ===
* "I Am Become Death", episode of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''. Given the nuclear explosion during this episode, this is almost certainly by way of Oppenheimer, who was quoting the Bhagavad Gita.
=== Meta ===
* On this very wiki: [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]] and [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]]
== Otto von Bismarck ==
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* "Tiger! Tiger!", a ''[[The Jungle Book (novel)|Jungle Book]]'' story by [[Rudyard Kipling]] ("The Tyger", poem)
* ''Tiger! Tiger!'', original title of ''[[The Stars My Destination]]'' by Alfred Bester
* "Tyger! Tyger!", episode of ''[[Batman: The
* ''Tyger Tyger'', book by Kersten Hamilton
* ''Burning Bright'', novel by [[John Steinbeck]] ("The Tyger", poem)
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* "Little Girl Lost", an episode of ''[[Castle]]'' (title of poem)
* "Little Girl Lost", episode of ''[[The Twilight Zone]]''
* ''Forests of the Night'' and ''Fearful Symmetries(: The Return of Nohar Rajasthan)'', both novels by S. Andrew Swann, both of which have the same main character who's a sentient tiger...
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* "Ashes to Ashes", song by David Bowie (Burial Rites 1 and 2)
** And the ''[[Ashes to Ashes|Life On Mars]]'' [[Ashes to Ashes|spinoff]] named after it.
* "Ashes to Ashes", Season Six Episode of ''[[Star Trek:
* "Dust to Dust", ''[[Babylon 5]]'' episode (Burial Rites 1 and 2)
* "Dust to Dust", ''[[War of the Worlds (TV series)|War of the Worlds]]'' episode
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== Ray Bradbury ==
=== Film ===
* ''Fahrenheit 9/11'' - The [[Michael Moore]] documentary about the presidency of [[George W. Bush]], referencing Bradbury's classic ''[[Fahrenheit 451]]''. Mr. Bradbury accused Mr. Moore of "stealing" his title, though he himself has invoked the Literary Allusion Title several times in his career.
== John Bradford ==
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== Lord Byron ==
=== [[Literature]] ===
* "And the Moon Be Still as Bright", chapter in ''[[The Martian Chronicles]]'' by [[Ray Bradbury]] ("So We'll Go No More A-Roving")
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* "Wolf in the Fold", ''Star Trek'' episode ("The Destruction of Sennacherib", poem)
* "She Walks in Beauty", ''[[Bonanza]]'' episode (title of poem)
== Julius Caesar ==
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* "The Die Is Cast", ''Star Trek: Deep Space 9'' episode (remark attributed to Caesar in Suetonius's ''Divus Julius'' and Plutarch's ''Life of Pompey'')
== John Cale ==
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== W. B. Cannon ==
=== Live-Action TV ===
* "Fight or Flight", episode of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' (''Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage: An Account of Recent Researches into the Function of Emotional Excitement'', scientific paper)
== Lewis Carroll ==
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== Casablanca ==
* ''[[The Usual Suspects]]'', movie directed by [[Bryan Singer]] (''[[Casablanca]]'', movie)
** According to Singer's commentary, the movie is directly named after an article from [[Time (magazine)|''Time'' magazine]]. The article, of course, quoted ''[[Casablanca]]''
* "The Usual Suspects", episode of ''Supernatural''
* "We'll Always Have Paris", episode of ''[[Star Trek: The
* "A Beautiful Friendship", ''[[Honor Harrington|Honorverse]]'' short story (about the first contact between humans and treecats), later expanded to a novel for the start of a [[Young Adult]] [[Honor Harrington|Honorverse]] line.
== Johnny Cash ==
=== Live-Action TV ===
* "The Folsom Prison Blues", ''Supernatural'' episode (title of song)
== Raymond Chandler ==
=== Live-Action TV ===
* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[Beverly Hills, 90210]]'' episode (title of novel)
* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[Casualty]]'' episode (title of novel)
* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[Dallas]]'' episode (title of novel)
* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[Dawson's Creek]]'' episode (title of novel)
* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[Duet]]'' episode (title of novel)
* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[Flying Blind]]'' episode (title of novel)
* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[Full House]]'' episode (title of novel)
* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[Growing Pains]]'' episode (title of novel)
* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[McLeod's Daughters]]'' episode (title of novel)
* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[The Persuaders!]]'' episode (title of novel)
* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[The Rifleman]]'' episode (title of novel)
* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' episode (title of novel)
* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[The Torkelsons]]'' episode (title of novel)
* "The Long Goodbye", ''[[The West Wing]]'' episode (title of novel)
== Child Ballads / folk songs ==
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== Arthur Conan Doyle ==
=== Literature ===
* ''[[The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time]]'', novel by Mark Haddon ("Silver Blaze", short story)
== Al Dubin ==
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== Euripides ==
=== Live-Action TV ===
* "Whom Gods Destroy", ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'' episode ("Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad", epigram)
== Eleanor Farjeon ==
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== John Fogerty ==
=== Comic Books ===
* "Bad Moon Rising", ''[[The Sandman]]'' issue (title of song)
=== Meta ===
* "[[Bad Moon Rising]]", All The Tropes.
== Robert Frost ==
=== Comic Books ===
*
=== Literature ===
* ''Perish Twice'', novel by Robert B. Parker ("Fire and Ice", poem)
* "The Road
=== Live-Action TV ===
* "Before I Sleep", ''Stargate: Atlantis'' episode ("Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening", poem)
* "Road Less Traveled", ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' episode ("The Road Not Taken", poem)
* "Road Not Taken", ''Stargate: SG-1'' episode ("The Road Not Taken", poem)
* "Road Not Taken", ''[[MacGyver]]'' episode ("The Road Not Taken", poem)
=== Music ===
* "Miles to Go Before I Sleep", song recorded by Celine Dion ("Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening", poem)
== Galileo Galilei ==
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== George Gershwin ==
=== Live-Action TV ===
* "Rhapsody in Blue", ''[[Farscape]]'' episode (title of orchestral piece)
== W. S. Gilbert ==
* "The Slave of Duty", ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' episode (subtitle of ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]'')
* "And it's Surely to their Credit", ''[[The West Wing]]'' episode, (line from "He is an Englishman" from ''[[H.M.S.
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== Thomas Gray ==
* ''Far From the Madding Crowd'', novel by Thomas Hardy ("Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", poem)
** [[Matchbox 20]] also has an album named "Far From the Madding Crowd", though it's unclear which is the source.
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== Juvenal ==
* "Who Watches the Watchers", ''[[Star Trek: The
* ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'', comic book by [[Alan Moore]] and Dave Gibbons (referencing the same quote as the ''Star Trek'' episode)
** And "Who Watches the Watchmen?" by ([[Coheed and Cambria]] Prize Fighter Inferno)--a side project of Coheed and Cambria's frontman Claudio
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* ''From Here to Eternity'', novel by James Jones ("Gentlemen-Rankers", poem)
* ''The Thin Red Line'', novel by James Jones ("Tommy", poem)
* "Thin RED Line", Arakune's theme music in the videogame ''[[
** Although, as "Tommy" lampshades, "thin red line" was an older phrase used in the newspapers etc. at least since the Crimean War.
* ''Insurance: The White Man's Burden'', a Goon Show episode. ("The White Man's Burden", poem)
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== C. S. Lewis ==
* "The Bug, the Witch, and the Robot", ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' arc (play on ''[[The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]]'', novel)
* "The Toad, the Witch, and the Wardrobe", ''[[X-Men:
* "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe", ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode
* "The Lyin', the Watch, and the Wardrobe", ''[[Ugly Betty]]'' episode
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* ''Sixpence None the Richer'', American pop/rock band(title taken from ''Mere Christianity'')
* ''The Problem of Susan'', a short story by [[Neil Gaiman]] ("The Problem of Pain", essay)
== Abraham Lincoln ==
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== Courtney Love ==
* ''[http://www.mighthavebeen.net/ My Name Is Might Have Been]'', webcomic by [[Catherynne M.
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== John Milton ==
* ''[[
* ''Tripping the Light Fantastic'', album by [http://www.theenid.com/ The Enid]
* ''Tripping the Live Fantastic'', live double album by [[Paul McCartney]]
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* Every single chapter of the [[Xenosaga]] series.
** Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht (recurring phrase most common in ''Beyond Good and Evil'')
** Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse (title of
** Episode III: Also Sprach Zarathustra (title of
* ''Also Sprach Zarathustra'', orchestral work by Richard Strauss
* ''[[Too Human]]'', video game (title of book--''Human, All Too Human'')
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== George Orwell ==
* ''[[Big Brother]]'', reality television show (''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four
* ''1Q84'', novel by [[Haruki Murakami]]; the letter Q and the Japanese number 9 are homophones (''1984'', novel)
* ''Room 101'', BBC chat show (''1984'', novel)
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== Trey Parker and Matt Stone ==
* ''What Would Brian Boitano Make'', cooking show ("What Would Brian Boitano Do?", song from ''[[South Park: Bigger, Longer &
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== Jean-Paul Sartre ==
* "[[Firefly (TV series)/Recap/E14 Objects in Space|Objects in Space]]", ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'' episode (''Being and Nothingness'', book)
* "Other People", short story by Neil Gaiman (''No Exit'', play)
* "No Exit", episode of ''[[The West Wing]]'' (title of play)
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== Maurice Sendak ==
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* "Where the Wild Things Are", episode of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' (title of picture book)
== Robert Service ==
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* "Where Silence Has Lease", ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode ("The Spell of the Yukon", poem)
== Dr. Seuss ==
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== Alfred, Lord Tennyson ==
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== Mark Twain ==
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== The Wizard of Oz ==
* "Not In Kansas Anymore", episode of ''[[Fame (1982 TV series)|Fame]]''.
=== Western Animation===
* "There's No Place Like Home School", episode of ''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]''
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== [[Zhuangzi]] ==
=== [[Literature]] ===
* ''The Lathe of Heaven'', novel by Ursula K. LeGuin (and two TV movie adaptations) (''[[Zhuangzi]]'', Chapter XXIII, philosophy<ref>"To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high achievement. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on '''the lathe of heaven'''."</ref>)
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