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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 art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build…
— Umberto Eco
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Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.
— Alfred Hitchcock
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It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.
— Joy Behar
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Very often the effort men put into activities that seem completely useless turns out to be extremely important in ways no one…
— Italo Calvino
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To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The forced influence of advertising has given us completely useless TV. You don't want that on the Net. But most on-line information…
— Robert Cailliau
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Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness.…
— Carl Rogers
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I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get…
— Helen Mirren
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The younger one looked to be completely useless.
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and…
— Bernhard Schlink
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Antioxidants are completely useless.
— Michael Specter
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I think without writing I would feel completely useless.
— Sam Shepard
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