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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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Time flies when you are anxious!
— Maria Bamford
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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice,…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon…
— Jean Paul
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Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant…
— Charles Lindbergh
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I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end…
— Neneh Cherry
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Time flies when you’re being stupid.
— David Henry Hwang
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Time flies whether you are having fun or not.
— Mary Engelbreit
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How time flies when one has fun!
— Samuel Beckett
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Time flies. Time flies faster every year. Time flies whether you're having fun or not, whether you're living your life big or…
— Claire Cook
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Tempus fugit (time flies).
— Ovid
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The first of America's 79 million baby boomers turned 60 this month. Time flies when you're growing old.
— Craig Wilson
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How time flies when you're doin all the talking.
— Harvey Fierstein
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