What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThere is nothing funny about Halloween.
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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved – commitment to a scenario.
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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
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