Some of today’s slaves sleep on king size beds.
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The difference between a retiring man and a used condom is that the condom isn’t given a golden watch to inspire the illusion that it still matters to whomever that has just used it.
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Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men.
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To get from the tangible to the intangible (which mature artists in any medium claim as part of their task) a paradox of some kind has frequently been helpful. For the photographer to free himself of the tyranny of the visual facts upon which he is utterly dependent, a paradox is the only possible tool. And the talisman paradox for unique photography is to work "the mirror with a memory" as if it were a mirage, and the camera is a metamorphosing machine, and the photograph as if it were a metaphor…. Once freed of the tyranny of surfaces and textures, substance and form [the photographer] can use the same to pursue poetic truth" (Minor White, Newhall, 281).
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To lose weight, spend time at the gym. To appear like you’ve lost weight, spend time with people who are bigger than you.
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*Forever* is an illusion that human beings promise each other when they are horny, or, trying to appear holy.
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The present is the closest that you will ever get to the future.
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A push-up bra is to a woman’s chest … what 'breathing-in' is to a man’s stomach.
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Some people aren’t really light-teethed; they’re merely dark-skinned.
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It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.
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