Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
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The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.
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The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
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Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now.
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At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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The Anglo-Saxon conscience doesn't keep you from doing anything. It just keeps you from enjoying it.
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Have no fear of perfection -- you will never reach it.
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It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
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The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family...
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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If you laid ever economist in the country end to end you would still not reach a conclusion.
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
Politics
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He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.
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