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I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

Behind Brake Car Gas
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I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving.

Headlights Lights Like Looks
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When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.

Box Child Eventually Had
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I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.

Books Children Few Purpose
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In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

Argument Considered Got Long
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I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

Car Clown Died Funeral
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I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

Chain Dollar Everybody Fax
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I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator.

Buying Clothes Escalator Girl
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There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

People Power Store Trapped
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I invented the cordless extension cord.

Cord Extension Invented
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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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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

Answers Destroy Interesting Only
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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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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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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Consider Honorable Intended Said
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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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AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

Model Occupies Our Part
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Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Animation Charms Depression Melancholy
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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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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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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

Governs Guilt Inexorable Innocence
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AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

AIDS Consequences Having People
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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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Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Ambition Does Feeds Others
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Constructs Painter Photographer
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Ideas Intelligence Kind Really
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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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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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There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

Burying Point Marker Site
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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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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

Cases Counterfeit Makes Many
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

Achievements Acts Excluded Feats
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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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When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

About Feelings First Just
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