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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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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
— Warren Buffett
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What you need to do, is to put your will over completely into the hands of your Lord, surrendering to Him the…
— Hannah Whitall Smith
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It is easy to follow, but it is uninteresting to do easy things. We find out about ourselves only when we take…
— Magdalena Abakanowicz
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Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.
— Larry Wall
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Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit,…
— Aaron Sorkin
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When did we start believing God wants to send us to safe places to do easy things?
— Mark Batterson
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Many good people, being influenced by the bold spirit of the times, are now seeking surgery for the wife or the husband…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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We are not filled with the Spirit of God to do easy things. He fills us with His Spirit so we can…
— Joyce Meyer
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Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the…
— Ninette de Valois
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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
— Edmund Spenser
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We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and…
— Bill McKibben
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Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
— Mason Cooley
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