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• Temptation is the voice of reason without its clothes on.

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• Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.

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• Something ism is better than nihilism.

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• There are but two states to the primitive mind: warring and boring.

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• Stereotypes are based on the idea that two heads are bigger than one.

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• Laughing is the body’s approval of the absurd.

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• Marriage is a lie—the most beautiful lie two people can share.

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• Sympathy is to love thy neighbor. Empathy is to leave her alone.

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• To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art.

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• Race should be seen in one way, and one way only: on your marks, get set, go!

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• Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth.

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• Reality is fatal whereas fantasy is something to die for.

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• No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.

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• Just because one is born in sin is no reason to brag about it.

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• Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.

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• A joke is a question of mind over manner.

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• It is said that the depressive has a clearer view of reality than does the euphoric. Perhaps, but the euphoric has a clearer view of life.

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• We are all born wise. Unfortunately, we all don’t die that way.

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• Wisdom doesn’t come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have.

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• We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.

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Anthony Marais (26)

Birth:	1966
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Musician, Novelist, Screenwriter

About

Anthony Marais is an American novelist, screenwriter and musician. He studied anthropology at UC Berkeley and archaeology at Simon Fraser University in Canada, where he did field work on various Pacific islands, in particular Tahiti, Guam and Tonga. In his novel, The Cure, a Californian fleeing from problems in university finds himself in Wiesbaden, Germany, a picturesque spa town near the Rhine River. Plateau, a screenplay co-written with Jarek Marszewski, is the story of a twelve-year-old girl who finds the body of a dying man along the roadside near her small town.

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