On History: The Democratic Making of a Kingdom

It was not England who made Parliament, but Parliament that made England.

G.M. Trevelyan
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My Favorite Words: Music to My Ears!

I need an orchestra, otherwise I wouldn't know how my music sounds.

Duke Ellington
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My Favorite Words: Practical Aesthetics

The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect apropriateness to its use.

Gustave Eiffel (yes, that Eiffel!)
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My Favorite Words: Just Kidding!

"Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar, but, can a joke ever be "only a joke?".

Attributed to Sigmund Freud.
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On Writing

Good descriptions have a long shelf life.

Robert R Provine
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What is there to laugh about?

Laughter... can be regarded as an aesthetically and sonically impoverished "human song."

Robert R. Provine
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What is there to laugh about?

Laughing is, in essence, a movement that produces song.

Robert R. Provine
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What is there to laugh about?

Hobbes states that laughter is the expression of a "sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminence in ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." (Hobbes´s On Human Nature)

Robert R. Provine
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My Favorite Words: On The Cinema

Delante de la pantalla, todo. Detrás de la pantalla, nada.

Manuel Puig
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On Writing

La escritura no es otra cosa que una tentativa de captar la voz a pleno vuelo.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante (Paráfrasis)
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My Favorite Words: La France!

France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

Mark Twain
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My Favorite Words: Revolution

No doubt their pristine sense of undisturbed somnolence will again settle upon them.

James McNeill Whistler
(when leaving the Presidency of the Society of British Artists)
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My Favorite Words: Material World

My God, money questions are terrible for an artist!

Paul Gauguin
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My Favorite Words: Lutece

Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.

Thomas Gold Appleton
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