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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software,…
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself…
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on…
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as…
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free,…
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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore…
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time…
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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the…
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long,…
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind…
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Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases…
— Herman Wouk
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Writing well isn't just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found…
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Strong ideas, loosely held. That's the path to success.
— John Gruber
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But tomorrow I see a change, a chance to build anew, built on Spirit, intent of heart, and ideas based on truth.…
— Tupac Shakur
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You have to be willing - you have strong ideas, you have strong views, but you have to be willing also to…
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I like to come to the set with very strong ideas and strong opinions about how to do things. And I like…
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
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She has very strong ideas about family - ideas that probably sound kind of sexist to you. She believes all dhampirs should…
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When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When…
— Salman Rushdie
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When I was really small, my mother had difficulty keeping me dressed, as I liked to be naked! I definitely had very…
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