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- The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies.…
- Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
- If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by…
- Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between…
- Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.
- The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape…
- Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas. I mean, one's…
- Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason.
- In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace.
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle