Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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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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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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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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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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Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
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There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
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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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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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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 only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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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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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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The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.
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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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The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
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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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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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Have no fear of perfection -- you will never reach it.
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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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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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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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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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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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I have tried to see things from your point of view, but no matter how hard I try, or what I do, I just can't get my head that far up my ass.
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