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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 am never as clear about any matter as when I have finished writing about it.
— James Van Allen
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Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
— John Irving
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Hillary Clinton has finished writing her book where she says her marriage couldn't be stronger, and Bill just finished his book titled…
— Craig Kilborn
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Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to…
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I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what…
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When finished writing a post, go back and add bullets, sub heads, spacing; eliminate long paragraphs or sentences.
— Michael Hyatt
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I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
— Donna Tartt
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There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about…
— Peter Ackroyd
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I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and…
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.
— Umberto Eco
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There!" Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. "A prophecy. You can add it to your books, engrave it on…
— Rick Riordan
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