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A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all…
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much…
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of…
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or…
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that…
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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is…
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To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of…
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Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A…
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is…
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Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books…
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What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.
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If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.
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Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says…
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When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you…
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I read the story and reread the story, but I still could not find the universality that the little Irishman had spoken…
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Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want to be…
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By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected…
— Roald Dahl
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I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood…
— Anne McCaffrey
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Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Experience is the only real teacher and if you keep a diary you get three bites at educating yourself - when it…
— Tony Benn
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I'm no prophet, but I'm guessing that comic books will always be strong. I don't think anything can really beat the pure…
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