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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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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his…
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With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.
— John Milton
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Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is…
— George Washington
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Using my own hand as a base material, I considered it a canvas upon which I stitched into the top layer of…
— Unknown Author
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I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of…
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Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery
— Sappho
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None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men,…
— Charlotte Mason
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Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality…
— Charlotte Gray
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In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In…
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Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery…
— Corrie Ten Boom
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When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made, we had…
— Alexander McQueen
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When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm…
— Lynn Abbey
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