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When you're less concerned with what other people think of you, you're more likely to do things like blast your car stereo or talk loudly on your cell phone in a library or waiting room. It also helps explain some other trends, such as more casual attitudes toward sex, dress and cursing.


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JEAN RHYS Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something s.
JEAN PAUL What you get free costs too much.
JEAN ANOUILH Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the c...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of af...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
JEAN ANOUILH We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasu...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
JEAN TOOMER Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflagg...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be co...
JEAN ANOUILH The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the abs...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
JEAN COCTEAU