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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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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There was always talk of espirit de corps, of being gung ho, and that must have been a part of it. Better,…
— James Brady
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Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you…
— Georges Bernanos
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Always talk to God, never listen to the cops.
— Lil Wayne
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Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen has been the Queensland premier the whole time we've been in Australia, and the state is a national joke…
— Unknown Author
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It's too easy, you see, to get trapped in the past. The past is very seductive. People always talk about the mists…
— Susanna Kearsley
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Why must we always talk about race anyway? Can't we just be human beings? And Professor Hunk replied - that is exactly…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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People always talk about Ronaldinho, and everything but I didnt see him today - I saw Henrik Larsson. Two times he came…
— Thierry Henry
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Each job I had wasn't necessarily the perfect job, but I always talk to young women about how you really have to…
— Tory Burch
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People always talk about going on offensive runs. But you can go on defensive runs too
— Tom Thibodeau
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Today, the world is so small and so interdependent that the concept of war has become anachronistic, an outmoded approach. As a…
— Dalai Lama
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