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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 can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me. We're tied together forever.…
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There are no stories without meaning. And I am one of those men who can find it even when others fail to…
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To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who…
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So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.
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Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters…
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Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before…
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How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out?
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I have been a Christian all my life, but it's impossible to be so deeply involved in these stories without it making…
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