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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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It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.
— E. W. Howe
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...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an…
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It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use one-tenth of our brain. Just think of what we could accomplish if we could…
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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never…
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Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with…
— Eugene V. Debs
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If I had to sum up my practical skills, I would use one word: survival. And operating a hedge fund utilized my…
— George Soros
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If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.
— Bob Dylan
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One hundred and fifty years ago the vacant lands of the West were opened to private use. One hundred years ago the…
— John F. Kennedy
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When you write a song, most of the words you use are in black and white, and then, from time to time,…
— Jacques Brel
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Each of these strategies-get a little better at it, design a support system, use one of your strongest themes to overwhelm your…
— Donald O. Clifton
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Every time I was cast in a role, the director put a gun in my hand, so I figured I’d better learn…
— Michael Rooker
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The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it.
— Francois Fenelon
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