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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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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
— William Blake
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The eye altering, alters all.
— William Blake
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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other…
— James Allen
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The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of…
— Oswald Chambers
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
— Claude Monet
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Wayne put me right here, that's who I get the paper wit. I hope that my success never alters our relationship.
— Drake
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Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting…
— Gerald Brenan
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Every action alters the soul of the doer.
— Oswald Spengler
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If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of…
— Unknown Author
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To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a…
— Joan Didion
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Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it…
— Anna Funder
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Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its…
— Barry Lopez
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