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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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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
— Ian Anderson
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Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
— John Donne
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It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with…
— Charles Darwin
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We have far too many kids. At one time in the playpen there was standing-room only. It looked like a bus stop…
— Phyllis Diller
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Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I…
— James Russell Lowell
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For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even her hair, she thought, running her fingers impatiently through the damp golden brown ringlets that curled romantically around her face. A…
— Naomi Ragen
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Days go by when I do nothing but underline the damp edge of myself.
— Mary Szybist
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If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp.…
— Ciaran Carson
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I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about…
— Vera Brittain
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