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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.
Steven Wright
Chain
Dollar
Everybody
Fax
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There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.
Steven Wright
People
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I invented the cordless extension cord.
Steven Wright
Cord
Extension
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My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.
Steven Wright
Makes
Meant
Friend
Noises
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It doesn't matter what temperature the room is, it's always room temperature.
Steven Wright
Always
Matter
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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.
Susan Sontag
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.
Susan Sontag
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.
Susan Sontag
Avoiding
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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.
Susan Sontag
Artificial
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
Susan Sontag
Answers
Destroy
Interesting
Only
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Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
Susan Sontag
Actively
Best
Lunatics
Mad
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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Honorable
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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.
Susan Sontag
Another
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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.
Susan Sontag
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
Susan Sontag
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.
Susan Sontag
Certain
Course
Critic
Entire
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Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
Susan Sontag
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.
Susan Sontag
Abstract
Famous
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Intensity
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A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
Susan Sontag
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.
Susan Sontag
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.
Susan Sontag
Accelerate
Beauty
Become
Change
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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
Susan Sontag
Governs
Guilt
Inexorable
Innocence
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
Susan Sontag
Art
Intellectual
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Revenge
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I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams
Susan Sontag
Dream
Life
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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.
Susan Sontag
Altogether
Bad
Interesting
Less
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
Susan Sontag
Constructs
Painter
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Susan Sontag
Ideas
Intelligence
Kind
Really
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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
Susan Sontag
Ideas
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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
Susan Sontag
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.
Susan Sontag
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.
Sydney J. Harris
Communication
Different
Things
Getting
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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Sydney J. Harris
About
Angry
Does
Indicate
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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.
Sydney J. Harris
Danger
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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.
Sydney J. Harris
Asking
Democracy
Only
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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.
Sydney J. Harris
Apart
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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.
Sydney J. Harris
Burying
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Site
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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.
Sydney J. Harris
Caught
Commencement
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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.
Sydney J. Harris
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Count
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
Sydney J. Harris
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'.
Sydney J. Harris
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Feats
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Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.
Finley Peter Dunne
Ever
Men's
Once
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Your faith begins to move, to act, when the power of God supernaturally empties you of doubt and fills you with a knowing. You come into a state of knowing that you know that you know. In that instant you cannot doubt.
Oral Roberts
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Empties
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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
Frank Zappa
Politics
Entertainment
Industry
Brach
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Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination.
Frank Zappa
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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
Frank Zappa
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden
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I enjoy irritating the people who enjoy being irritated.
Frank Zappa
Enjoy
Irritated
Being
People
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It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I'm wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was right did not make him right... Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?
Frank Zappa
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It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.
Frank Zappa
Remember
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Better
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As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn't mean they are dumber than you.
Frank Zappa
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Children
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