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We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferen

We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures. – Jean Baudrillard

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Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void. – Jean Baudrillard

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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. – Jean Baudrillard

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If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals dont speak, its because everythings perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection. – Jean Baudrillard

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Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! – Lewis Carroll

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It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times — the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie — seem attractive by comparison. – Christopher Lasch

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Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God. – Bryan Appleyard

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Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. – Terry Eagleton

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Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best. – Loretta Lynn

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The Cold War isnt thawing it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isnt sleeping it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting. – Richard M. Nixon

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