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== [[Film]] ==
* Referenced in the [[Jim Carrey]] version of ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (film)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]'':
{{quote| '''The Grinch''': The nerve of those Whos. Inviting me down there - on such short notice! Even if I wanted to go my schedule wouldn't allow it. 4:00, wallow in self pity; 4:30, '''stare into the abyss'''; 5:00, solve world hunger, tell no one; 5:30, jazzercize; 6:30, dinner with me - I can't cancel that again; 7:00, wrestle with my self-loathing... I'm booked. Of course, if I bump the loathing to 9, I could still be done in time to lay in bed, stare at the ceiling and slip slowly into madness. But what would I wear?}}
* Put on screen before the director's cut of ''[[The Abyss]]''; they wanted it on the theatrical cut, but another movie had just used it (the commentary didn't say which).
 
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* The second part of the quote is used at the end of the pilot episode of ''[[Criminal Minds]]'', "Extreme Aggressor." Five seasons later, the quote is ([[Continuity Nod|deliberately]]) reused in its entirety at the beginning of the aptly named 100th episode "100."
* Referenced in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' finale, "The Parting of the Ways".
{{quote| '''{{spoiler|Rose}}''': [[Big Damn Heroes|I looked into the TARDIS...]] [[My Skull Runneth Over|and the TARDIS looked into me.]]}}
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* In ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'', the second part of the quote was used.
* In ''[[Justice League Crisis On Two Earths]]'', Batman alludes to the second part when he point out the difference between him and his Evil Counterpart:
{{quote| '''Batman:''' There is a difference between you and me. We both looked into the abyss, but when it looked back at us... you blinked. }}
 
 
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* Used heavily (possibly even more than the titular poem) in ''[[Hyperion Cantos|The Fall of Hyperion]]'' by Dan Simmons.
* At the end of "[[The Dresden Files|Storm Front]]", Harry Dresden comments on how the world is getting stranger and he sees it as his job to maintain some control in his corner of the world:
{{quote| "Things are spinning around faster and faster, and threatening to go completely awry. Falcons and falconers. The center cannot hold."}}
* The middle book of [[Harry Turtledove]]'s ''American Empire'' trilogy (the second trilogy of his [[Timeline-191]]) chronicles the ominous ascent of the Freedom Party. It's called ''The Center Cannot Hold''.
* Joan Didion published a collection of essays in 1968 under the title ''Slouching Towards Bethlehem''. It's mainly about her experiences in California during the 1960s.
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== [[Music]] ==
* A version of this quote is used in the lyrics of the Thrice song "For Miles":
{{quote| And there's no greater love<br />
Than that one shed his blood for his friends. }}
 
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* Discussed in ''The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul''.
* Referenced in "[[Discworld/Feet of Clay|Feet of Clay]]"
{{quote| "It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got at the truth, however improbable..."}}
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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