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Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
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The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and…
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In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
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If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that…
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,…
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled…
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads…
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Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred…
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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
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American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale…
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Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word,…
— G. H. Hardy
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Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all.
— Pericles
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I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that…
— Lester Bangs
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About 2500 years ago Aeschylus, the Greek playwright, wrote, He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot…
— Gioconda Belli
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There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can…
— Anne Carson
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Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not…
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I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down,…
— Tom Stoppard
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Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century…
— John F. Kennedy
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Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.
— G. H. Hardy
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In war, truth is the first casualty. -Aeschylus
— Call Of Duty
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