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Those compelled to mock the serious are perhaps not quite sure who will get the last laugh.




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You thought you were completely free of scorn until someone's shaft of ridicule pierced your poise.

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It's comfort- not conscience- that makes cowards of us all.


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The bland leading the bland...

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They support the "radical" poet who insults and bullies everyone - yet wonder why the President is a fascist.



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The verdict is in, the drums are rolling, the executioner is expected - tremble or live?

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Tell your troubles to a dark cloud you get rain.




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Cold latitudes proffer cold platitudes.

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The seductive informalities of contemporary life correspond to the ironic formalisms of contemporary art.


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Define me by how I think, describe me by what I know, know me by how I feel.

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Life's conspiracy- perhaps the shadow of desire- an irrepressible aura of incompletion.




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What you are thinking is the parrot in the cage of what you are doing.

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Treating others as equals demands considerable stamina. Most people prefer to worship and be worshipped- thus the predictable failure of democracies.



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No one would credit anyone for anything if not for the compulsive craving for hierarchy.