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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's a mystery of parenthood that your son can give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a stray, worm-riddled dog, share a piece of re-chewed…
— Kathy Lette
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If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Ric Flair is out there crying, his nose is running. He's probably drowning from the size of his nose running.
— Roddy Piper
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I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose…
— Aaron Eckhart
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This boxer is doing what is expected of him, bleeding from his nose.
— Harry Carpenter
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"If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already." Actual Twents: "At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange…
— Robert Frost
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Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.
— Bennett Cerf
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I try to photograph her beauty; with a man I try to show his character. Once I photographed a man with a…
— Philippe Halsman
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Vagisil. Any one of them will give you another two to three inches drop on your curve ball. Of course if the…
— Eddie Harris
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The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I…
— Isak Dinesen
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