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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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An anagram of Axl Rose is oral sex. Why do I know? Because when I'm not playing music I love solving erotic…
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Yeah, I've banged some female costars. I swore I'd never tell their names, so instead I'll present some anagrams: Sahar Clahke and…
— Zach Braff
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Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.
— Alfred Brendel
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The truth is an anagram of an anagram.
— Umberto Eco
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My name is only an anagram of toilets.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend…
— Banksy
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Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and…
— Lorrie Moore
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We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on.…
— Maggie O'Farrell
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The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this…
— John Fowles
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All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I…
— John Banville
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but it's far too late for us; ring, hair, letters, photographs--all traces of our love will be scattered then, like an anagram...
— Daniel Handler
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