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Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that…
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Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
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In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
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Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which,…
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What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
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Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
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The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
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There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
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Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
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If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but…
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At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it is and…
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They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of…
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Don't ever get your speedometer confused with your clock, like I did once, because the faster you go the later you think…
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We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire's, has had the hands removed and bears the legend,…
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There is no alarm clock like embarrassment,
— Maryrose Wood
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I've never been a big cinephile, which may be why I could treat 'The Clock' like a puzzle and force the pieces…
— Christian Marclay
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations…
— Sinclair Lewis
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Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous…
— Thomas Sowell
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