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"Should it matter what genre it is if the book is good?"

"It's sarcasm, Josh.'Sarcasm?'It's from the Greek, sarkasmos. To bite the lips. It means that you aren't really saying what you mean, but people will get your point. I invented it, Bartholomew named it.'Well, if the village idiot named it, I'm sure it's a good thing.'There you go, you got it.'Got what?'Sarcasm.'No, I meant it.'Sure you did.'Is that sarcasm?'Irony, I think.'What's the difference?'I haven't the slightest idea.'So you're being ironic now, right?'No, I really don't know.'Maybe you should ask the idiot.'Now you've got it.'What?'Sarcasm."

"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"

"Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness."

"She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section."

"I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art."
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"The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes."

"I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories."

"This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own."

"Now a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million. This is only 100 thousands US dollars. This is not enough!"

"Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory."
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