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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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We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
— Douglas Adams
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There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you…
— Damon Hill
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The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival…
— Robert Morrison MacIver
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I believe it is important to go on insisting that normality is not what we are exposed to. Honestly, among my acquaintances…
— Kate Winslet
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According to Montaigne, it was the oppressive notion that we had complete mental control over our bodies, and the horror of departing…
— Alain de Botton
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When I think of normality I think of mediocrity
— Gillian Anderson
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Don't go to men who are willing to kill themselves driving in circles looking for normality.
— James Hunt
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Creativity, not normality, has become the paradigm of mental health.
— Stephen Mitchell
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A cup of tea would restore my normality.
— Douglas Adams
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Anxiety is the normality of our age,
— Alex Colville
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The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total…
— Nigel Kneale
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Fantasy isn't just a jolly escape: It's an escape, but into something far more extreme than reality, or normality. It's where things…
— Terry Gilliam
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