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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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My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by…
— Steve Carell
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My family always says my voice is a gift—a precious jewel I inherited from my maternal grandma, Julia Kate Hudson. My sister…
— Jennifer Hudson
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I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes…
— Sophia Myles
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I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city…
— Aravind Adiga
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My maternal desires are fully satisfied with my dogs.
— Elisabetta Canalis
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Ultimately all hominids came from Africa, and therefore everyone in America should simply check the box next to 'African-American.' My maternal grandmother…
— Michael Shermer
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Every day of my adult life, I have worn at least one piece of jewelry from my maternal grandmother's collection, all of…
— Sloane Crosley
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was…
— Umberto Eco
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he…
— Al Pacino
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I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.
— Ayelet Waldman
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Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.
— Chris Hardwick
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I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope…
— Donna VanLiere
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