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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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Nobody's ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there's some Shakespearean play taking…
— Richard Branson
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"Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on to the…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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For me Sir Alex was my father in football. He was crucial in my career and, outside football, was a great human…
— Cristiano Ronaldo
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Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I…
— Douglas MacArthur
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About the last thing I ever wanted in life was a knighthood, and even today some forty years after the event, I…
— Donald Bradman
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Now, I don't see color. People tell me I'm white and I believe them because police officers call me 'sir'.
— Stephen Colbert
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I have so little sex appeal that my gynecologist calls me 'sir'.
— Joan Rivers
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Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.'
— Homer
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Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.
— George Bernard Shaw
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An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me,…
— Anatole France
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I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the…
— Ian Mckellen
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Lots of people come up to me and call me Sir Bruce now. Interviewers call me Sir with every question, but I…
— Bruce Forsyth
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