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 BAUDRILLARDNever 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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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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, 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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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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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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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