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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all…
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much…
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of…
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or…
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that…
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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is…
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To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of…
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Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A…
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is…
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After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington…
— Michele Bachmann
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Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.
— Tony Blair
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God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where…
— Ben Affleck
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Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the…
— Ray Bradbury
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One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular…
— James Buchan
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I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear…
— Adam Ant
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We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by…
— Yasser Arafat
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One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war…
— Bertrand Russell
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Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion.
— Richard Armour
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The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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Maybe tone it down with the explosions
— Michael Bay
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One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that the present…
— Fred Hoyle
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