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"Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones."
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"Retro is a symptom of a generation that is too lazy to innovate."
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"On this matter I'm inclined to agree with the French, who gaze upon any personal dietary prohibition as bad manners."
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"The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points."
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"The greatest tragedy to ever happen to a nation is not the incidences of war or terrorism. It's when more bookshops close down and more drinking bars are opened to replace them!"
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"There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever."
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"Why are we so afraid of silence? Teenagers cannot study without their records; they walk along the street with their transistors. Grownups are as bad if not worse; we turn on the TV or the radio the minute we come into the house or start the car. The pollution of noise in our cities is as destructive as the pollution of air. We show our fear of silence in our conversation: I wonder if the orally-minded Elizabethan's used "um" and "er" the way we do? And increasingly prevalent is what my husband calls an articulated pause: "You know." We interject "you know" meaninglessly into every sentence, in order that the flow of our speech should not be interrupted by such a terrifying thing as silence."
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"The pure modernist is merely a snob, he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion."
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"Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a sort of glimmer of hope... but darkness wins."
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"Without the library, you have no civilization."
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"Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French."
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"There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him."
Life
"Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones."
Culture
"No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell."
Hell
"Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others."
Poetry
"When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach."
Life
"Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones."
Culture
"We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human."
Men
"So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair."
Cause
"All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth."
Language
"I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat."
Time
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