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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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Paul, we are going to kill you. That is cool, then I will go to Christ. Ok Paul, we are going to…
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Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.
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There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under…
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To me, the scariest movie ever made to this day is 'The Exorcist.' It still scares the living hell out of me,…
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I grew up in the South, in New Orleans, where guys torture you all the time. So I didn't really grow up…
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The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in…
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It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.
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Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely…
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They'll torture you for months before killing you if you run" Otis shrugged, as if this was an everyday occurrence.
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When you have girl children they torture you!
— Pat Benatar
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