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«It even looks exactly like a real book, with pages and print and dust jacket and everything. This disguise is extremely clever, considering the contents: the longest lounge act never performed in the history of the Catskills.»
«Facts have long since upstaged fiction, and the novelistic imagination now contents itself with documenting incidents it wouldn't have the temerity to invent.»
Author: Peter Conrad
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contents, documented, documenting, documents, incident, incidents, long since, temerity, The Incident, upstage, upstaged
«Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
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«Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, until they have seen and lived at least part of their contents»
«Examine the contents, not the bottle»
«It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.»
«Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
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«Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
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«Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion? All the cosmetics names seemed obscenely obvious to me in their promises of sexual bliss. They were all firming or uplifting or invigorating. They made you tingle. Or glow. Or feel young. They were prepared with hormones or placentas or royal jelly. All the juice and joy missing in the lives of these women were to be supplied by the contents of jars and bottles. No wonder they would spend twenty dollars for an ounce of face makeup or thirty for a half-ounce of hormone cream. What price bliss? What price sexual ecstasy?»
Author: Erica Jong
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«Do not damage your mental peace by receiving the letter and reading the contents. Refuse to receive it. You have a chance of correcting the wrong-doers too; accept it and join the gang of mischief-makers. So be warned!»
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