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Quote by Roland Barthes
There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wre

There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque. – Roland Barthes

Other quotes by Roland Barthes

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. – Roland Barthes

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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth. – Roland Barthes

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These are my new shoes. Theyre good shoes. They wont make you rich like me, they wont make you rebound like me, they definitely wont make you handsome like me. Theyll only make you have shoes like me. Thats it. – Charles Barkley

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A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set. – Jimmy Cannon

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