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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'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a…
— Clifford Geertz
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Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts…
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Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my…
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My aim was to create armaments to protect the borders of my motherland. It is not my fault that the Kalashnikov became…
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And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.
— Robert Browning
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The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like…
— Michael Ondaatje
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I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
— Calvin Trillin
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It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author; usually only one.
— Isaac Marion
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I read three books a week.
— Emma Donoghue
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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every…
— Rachel Gibson
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For my first three books the setting (or place if you will) has always been a given - N.J. and the Dominican…
— Junot Diaz
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was…
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