Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDPerhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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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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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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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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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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