Only the absurd could have any bearing on reality.
~ Edmund Cooper
Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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I do not dislike publicity nor do I want it; it is publicity that wants me.
~ Salvador Dali
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The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that we have no God-given right to destroy our inheritance, but must always patiently submit to the voice of order, and set an example of orderly living.
~ Roger Scruton
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I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.
~ J.D. Salinger
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There is no truth but untruth. There is no reason but unreason.
~ Edmund Cooper
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The only difference between a madman and myself is that I am not mad!
~ Salvador Dali
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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk
– we can talk about it.
~ J.D. Salinger
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My ambition, still and always, is to integrate the experiments of modern art with the great classical tradition.
~ Salvador Dali
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By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.
~ John le Carré
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A strange superstition has arisen in the Western world that says we can start all over again, remaking human nature, human society, and the possibilities of happiness; as though the knowledge and experience of our ancestors were now entirely irrelevant.
~ Roger Scruton
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