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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 could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier…
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My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three…
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I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan,…
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When I was a little kid, I told stories.
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From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel…
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From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended…
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My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.
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I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.
— Art Alexakis
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