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"Pornography is a satire on human pretensions."
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"What a joy it is to dance and sing!"
Dance
"The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick."
Experience
"A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters."
Creativity
"Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome."
Movies
"I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with."
God
"In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world."
Age
"To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with."
Future
"Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production."
Dream
"You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself."
Love
"In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of."
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"I don't want to see him alone. He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice."
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"He [Old Mr. Turveydrop] was a fat old gentleman with a false complexion, false teeth, false whiskers, and a wig. He had a fur collar, and he had a padded breast to his coat, which only wanted a star or a broad blue ribbon to be complete. He was pinched in, and swelled out, and got up, and strapped down, as much as he could possibly bear."
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"The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!"
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"If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape."
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"Not all. Some of them he probably lectured to death."
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"On the Kite, the situation was being 'workshopped'. This is the means by which people who don't know anything get together to pool their ignorance."
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"Or he'd watch the news: more plagues, more famines, more floods, more insect or microbe or small-mammal outbreaks, more droughts, more chickenshit boy-soldier wars in distant countries. Why was everything so much like itself?"
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"I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do."
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"What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry."
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"Now-a-days, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty cap."
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