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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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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
— J. J. Abrams
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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
— Walter Bagehot
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The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert…
— James Buchan
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'Knowing' is one of those movies where you're going to get the spectacle, and you're going to have the entertainment in the…
— Nicolas Cage
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I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has…
— Criss Angel
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Daydreams are doable. The turn-on is not in scale, spectacle, or cost. It's in the doing. Anything you haven't done is an…
— Malcolm Forbes
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Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has…
— Lewis Mumford
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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…
— Roland Barthes
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It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present…
— George Eliot
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We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him,…
— Bertrand Russell
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A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste…
— Thomas Carlyle
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