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I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.
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I was unemployable when I got out of college.
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I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.
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No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.
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They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that…
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My goal in life is to become an adjective,
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My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.
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I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest…
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If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is…
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Emotions, in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." I'd like to have at…
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In the midst of my skeptical, cynical, often pessimistic nature exists a slender capacity to believe, if only temporarily, in a guiding,…
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The worst thing about religion was religious people.
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As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance…
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An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles.…
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Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general…
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As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main…
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I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most…
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Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to…
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Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs,…
— Paul Rand
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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