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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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In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would…
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My reputation when I was first here was that I had every single answer in the book. I don't know, maybe I…
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You don't come to terms with something before you do it. It's only after you've done it that you realize, you know,…
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I got tiger blood, man. My brain...fires in a way that is - I don't know, maybe not from this particular terrestrial…
— Charlie Sheen
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time.…
— Janis Joplin
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I often fake my death and then just show up at people's houses. They say 'that's a good one Thom' but I…
— Thom Yorke
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I'm not a woman! Let's make that very clear! Oh I don't know, maybe I am. I am an American woman. Or…
— Lars von Trier
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Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to…
— Rebecca Wells
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Of course I miss playing for Manchester United. I played there for six years and that’s a long time. I am still…
— Cristiano Ronaldo
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So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's…
— Richard Branson
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