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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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While the fool is enjoying the little he has, I will hunt for more. The way to hunt for more is to…
— Arthur Brisbane
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Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a…
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The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a…
— George Orwell
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I mean, there's little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd moments, and if…
— Anthony Burgess
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In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.
— Oscar Levant
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I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach…
— Umberto Eco
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. . . maybe that's what life's all about: there's a lof of despair, but also the odd moments of beauty, where…
— Muriel Barbery
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I feel like there's something terrible and wonderful and amazing that's just beyond my grasp. I have dreams about it. I do…
— Michael Cunningham
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Working in films, there are hundreds of odd moments.
— Helen McCrory
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London is like no other city I know in its ability to become beautiful. You can suddenly turn a corner and there…
— Graham Swift
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The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a…
— George Orwell
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It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those…
— Barry Levinson
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