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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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As all those have shown who have discussed civil institutions, and as every history is full of examples, it is necessary to…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes.…
— George Orwell
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History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which…
— Carl Sagan
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History is full of surprises.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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History is full of people who thought they were right -- absolutely right, completely right, without a shadow of a doubt. And…
— John D. Barrow
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History is full of examples of people compromising their beliefs in order to keep themselves alive.
— Francis James Grimke
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History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.
— Sara Sheridan
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History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument…
— Sarah Vowell
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History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with…
— F. M. Powicke
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In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their…
— Manuel Puig
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You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.
— William Landay
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History is full of wrongs done the wife by legal robbery on the part of the husband. I hesitate not to assert…
— Matilda Joslyn Gage
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