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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'm simply a nonbeliever and have been forever. ... I'm interested in saying, 'Let us discuss the existential question. We are all…
— David Cronenberg
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I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but…
— Ernst Junger
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Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day.
— Primo Levi
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Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever.
— Christopher Hitchens
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I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
— Albert Einstein
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I'm personally a nonbeliever, so I'm struggling with if we really need religion.
— Frans de Waal
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The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.
— Albert Einstein
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As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else.
— William Peter Blatty
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What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since…
— Umberto Eco
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I was a terrible believer in things,but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was…
— Cheryl Strayed
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The new definition of the word 'nonbeliever' is a person who lives in ignorant and arrogant denial of the 'fact' of evolution.
— Steve Fowler
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