Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDI hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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.
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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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When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
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The world is not dialectical – it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other’s heart.
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