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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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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
— Frank Abagnale
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The fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries.
— Rupert Sheldrake
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A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.
— Morris Bender
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These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead,…
— William Shakespeare
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We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New…
— Thomas Paine
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Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only…
— William Gaddis
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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I am always fascinated when people talk about 'the forging of a nation'. Most nations are forgeries, perpetrated in the last century…
— Neal Ascherson
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The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
— Ralph Hodgson
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Anything that's signed by me on EBay is a forgery and not authentic.
— Brett Hull
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Whether or not you agree that trimming and cooking are likely to lead on to downright forgery, there is little to support…
— Unknown Author
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The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His…
— Thomas Paine
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