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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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Books worth reading are worth re-reading.
— Holbrook Jackson
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I used to have to do readings in church, and it was terrifying. I would never have my glasses. The words are…
— Jim Gaffigan
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What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it…
— Christopher Hitchens
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If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble.
— Claire Messud
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But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other…
— Thomas Keneally
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The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
— Vernon Lee
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I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What…
— Antonia Fraser
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I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the…
— Johannes Kepler
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The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.
— Reynolds Price
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When you are reading a book and you finish a chapter, you don’t keep re-reading the chapter you just finished. You move…
— Stephen Reid
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I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't…
— Jeff VanderMeer
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
— Umberto Eco
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