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• Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
• The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and…
• In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
• If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that…
• The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,…
• The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled…
• The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads…
• Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
• When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred…
• There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
• American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC
• 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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