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It doesn't matter what temperature the room is, it's always room temperature.

Always Matter Room Temperature
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I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

Advertising Executive Only Saw
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'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

Camp Exaggerated Love Particular
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Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

Able After Alone Been
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The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Avoiding Boredom Controlled Creative
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It is not the position, but the disposition.

Disposition Position
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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Artificial Artist Comment Condition
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Beautiful Feminine Masculine Men
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The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own

Camera Eventually Everyone Makes
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Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

Actively Best Lunatics Mad
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In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it

America Past Person Photographer
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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Body Cultivation Food Mind
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Another Freezing Melt Moment
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A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

About Considered Deaths Demeaning
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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

About Affront Anything Cannot
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The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility

Capitalism Expansion Ideology Indefinite
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Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

Certain Course Critic Entire
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Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Animation Charms Depression Melancholy
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Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

Any Disease Important Significance
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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Abstract Famous Independent Intensity
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A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

About Album Extended Family
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Balance However Lie May
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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Accelerate Beauty Become Change
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The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

Becoming Exhaustion His History
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Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

Alive Although Becoming Healthy
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Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Form Lying Most Simple
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Art Intellectual Interpretation Revenge
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The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

Aim Analogy Art Commentary
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It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

Altogether Bad Interesting Less
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Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Elementary Lying Means Self
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Constructs Painter Photographer
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Ideas Intelligence Kind Really
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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

Deeply Feared Most Suffering
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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Attainment Existence Flux Future
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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Anything Catastrophe Changing Heading
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The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

Communication Different Things Getting
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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

Danger Computer Men Think
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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Asking Democracy Only Ought
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Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Automatically Believes Deserves Enough
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The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

Apart Beauty Children Exactly
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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

Caught Commencement Easy How
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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

Believes Count Cynic Determines
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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Arrogant Discovered His Idea
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The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

Apparent Argument Being Escape
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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

Age Bother Calling Hear
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When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us

Amount Directly Disagreeable Feel
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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

Forgive Loser Petty Rebuke
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The decisive means for politics is violence.

Decisive Means Politics Violence
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Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.

Work Paid Pleasure Allowed
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The important thing is not the size of your faith - it is the One behind your faith - God Himself.
Important Size Faith Behind
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