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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software,…
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself…
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on…
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as…
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free,…
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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore…
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time…
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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the…
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long,…
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind…
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My mental boundaries expanded when I viewed the Earth against a black and uninviting vacuum, yet my country's rich traditions had conditioned…
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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the…
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Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.
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A tragic mistake that is often made is to assume that the will of God is bound to be something very dull…
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Besides, if I wanted to hear people speaking wall-to-wall French, all I had to do was remove my headphones and participate in…
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Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have…
— Maya Angelou
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The only reason to delay at this point was because the immediate prospect was so deeply uninviting.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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This party is old and uninviting, participants all in black and white, you enter in full blown Technicolor
— Brandon Boyd
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Its language is as bare as a monk's cell, and as uninviting.
— Clifford Longley
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