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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software,…
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself…
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on…
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as…
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free,…
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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore…
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time…
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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the…
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long,…
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind…
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Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent…
— Georges Bataille
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If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing…
— Sara Blakely
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We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff…
— Ray Bradbury
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I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem…
— Jeff Bridges
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I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every…
— Tucker Carlson
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If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play…
— Tori Amos
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
— Jean Cocteau
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Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
— Blaise Pascal
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Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security
— John Allen Paulos
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Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit…
— Michel de Montaigne
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