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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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Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.
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When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when…
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A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an…
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From his observations, he concluded that it [Tycho's supernova] was not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor, whether these be…
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I will give you a show that you've never ever seen before, why?...Because I can
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I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.
— Robert Mapplethorpe
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When I was 15, I left school to start a magazine, and it became a success because I wouldn't take no for…
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