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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 don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to…
— Mary J. Blige
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The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
— George Carlin
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Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is…
— Quincy Jones
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The success of this album is very much in question. Who knows where it's going to go? My being a Spice Girl…
— Melanie Chisholm
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Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their…
— Winston Churchill
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If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so…
— Simon Newcomb
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn't exist' - 'The only effective regulation lies in the…
— Alan Greenspan
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You will find that hardly a soul who will say that it was a bad thing. Almost everybody will say it was…
— Milton Friedman
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To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.
— Diane de Poitiers
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Follow your heart wherever it takes you. Nobody knows where the wind blows. No one can say.
— Unknown Author
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My daughter doesn't want to go to school because she knows 'the men' are watching for her. They jump out of the…
— Halle Berry
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