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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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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
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I hardly ever go out when I'm home.
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Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of…
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Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly…
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Life hardly ever lives up to our anxieties.
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Gough never pretended to perfection or to sainthood - well, hardly ever. Although when he set off the metal detector at airport…
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Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own,…
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I really, really enjoy fitting words together - but I only enjoy it when it's easy, when it sort of rolls along…
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