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Every decoding is another encoding.
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Information is the religion of the modern world.
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Information
Modern
World
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Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.
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Backwards
Should
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I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art.
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Art
Men
Dying
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Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.
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Desire
Habit
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It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces
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Faces
Scene
These Days
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Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
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Having Children
Literature
Sex
Round
Mostly
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I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex
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Sports
Real
Sex
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Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
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Company
Dictionary
Ends
Walt
Words
Seen
Laid
Outside
Whitman
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To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another
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Curiosity
Desire
Surrender
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Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
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Age
Cathedrals
Criteria
Justify
Modern
Modern Age
Utilitarian
Universities
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I'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting - the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch you're sitting on.
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Branches
Intellectual
Lasts
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Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.
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Academic Life
Law
Peers
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It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to think about
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Awakening
Sleep
Thinking
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Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.
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Age
Believe
Epidemics
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That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else's expense. Write a paper and see the world! I'm Jane Austen - fly me!
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Play
World
Writing
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Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are "prefabricated" in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.
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Communication
Creativity
Degrees
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Language is the net that holds thought trapped within a particular culture. But if one could only strike the ball with sufficient force, with perfect timing, it would perhaps break through the netting, continue on its course, never fall to earth, but go into orbit around the world.
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Break Through
Fall
Perfect
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Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry. The natural deduction is that novels are paraphrasable whereas poems are not. But this is a false deduction because close analysis is itself a disguised form of paraphrase.
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Analysis
Literature
Lyric Poetry
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Four times, under our educational rules, the human pack is shuffled and cut - at eleven-plus, sixteen-plus, eighteen-plus and twenty-plus - and happy is he who comes top of the deck on each occasion, but especially the last. This is called Finals, the very name of which implies that nothing of importance can happen after it.
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Cutting
Educational
Names
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to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing
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Curiosity
Desire
Trying
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whhheeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The scream of jet engines rises to a crescendo on the runways of the world. Every second, somewhere or other, a plane touches down, with a puff of smoke from scorched tyre rubber, or rises in the air, leaving a smear of black fumes dissolving in its wake. From space, the earth might look to a fanciful eye like a huge carousel, with planes instead of horses spinning round its circumference, up and down, up and down. Whhheeeeeeeeeee!
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Space
Eye
Horse
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