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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDTelevision 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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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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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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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The order of the world is always right – such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.
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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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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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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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