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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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There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best…
— Mary Pipher
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Stories? We all spend our lives telling them, about this, about that, about people … But some? Some stories are so good…
— Dustin Hoffman
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Maketa Groves has a strong, bright lyric gift. Her poems come out of music and are full of music. They bring us…
— Diane di Prima
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The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close…
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Each time the losses and deceptions of life teach us about impermanence, they bring us closer to the truth. When you fall…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through…
— Oscar Wilde
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When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they…
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I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness.
— Martin Seligman
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Jokes are so personal, and they bring us together in so many ways.
— Mike Birbiglia
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None of the widely touted new technologies and weapons systems 'would have helped me in the last three years in Iraq and…
— James Mattis
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Baby, I know I am not the fist girl to walk into your life but I'd kill to be your last. I…
— Hannah Hudnall
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