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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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Home economics should find its way into the curriculum of every school because the scientific study of a problem pertaining to food,…
— Unknown Author
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One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the…
— John Szarkowski
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I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the…
— Roland Barthes
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find…
— Gary Lineker
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I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual,…
— Benedict Cumberbatch
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Romance at short notice was her speciality.
— Hector Hugh Munro
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Kate's Speciality: Killing things, with much bloodshed. Talking trash, infuriating authority. Driving Beast Lord crazy.
— Ilona Andrews
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Hatchet murders were the house speciality of the Journal, whose front page was a virtual abattoir of murder most foul.
— Unknown Author
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I'm here to score a lot of goals. It's my speciality, that's what I've been brought here to do, and I want…
— Ronaldo
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Sorry I'm spaced out right now, functioning sober isn't exactly my speciality, I wish my mouth worked as well as my fingers.
— Danny Worsnop
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While directing Modern Family which airs tonight...Password needed for cast & crew to order speciality coffee, 'Steve Levitan wears spanks.'
— Bryan Cranston
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