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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 invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
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I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
— Isabel Allende
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I invented it, Bill made it famous.
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I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
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I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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I'm not rich because I invented VisiCalc, but I feel that I've made a change in the world. That's a satisfaction money…
— Dan Bricklin
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I love chess, and I didnt invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I…
— Bobby Fischer
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I invented the historical spy novel.
— Alan Furst
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When John Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my South End studio at five o'clock on a May morning in 1916, neither…
— George Grosz
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There are things that I invented - the creaky geriatric robot that is always grumpy, for example, or the little wheelie guy,…
— Michael Bay
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Matter of fact, the style that people use today, I invented in a way.
— John Milius
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My work is my life, and my life is my work. I invented this assault rifle to defend my country. Today, I…
— Mikhail Kalashnikov
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