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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software,…
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself…
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on…
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as…
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free,…
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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore…
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time…
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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the…
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long,…
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind…
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No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
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Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.
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Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will…
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A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.
— Lawrence Lessig
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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the…
— John Gierach
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It is impossible to understand history, international politics, the world economy, religions, philosophy, or ‘patterns of culture’ without taking geography into account.
— Kenneth C. Davis
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You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
— Adam Gopnik
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A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.
— Lawrence Lessig
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