“ Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust. ”
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“ Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free. ”
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“ Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do. ”
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“ Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?' "Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him. ”
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“ education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another. ”
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“ education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another. ”
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“ I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other. ”
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“ The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must. Its very nobility makes the results of its breakdown doubly horrifying, and it breaks down, as it always will, not by some external agency but because it cannot work. ”
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“ Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics. ”
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“ Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. ”
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“ A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night and then as its mausoleum. ”
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“ He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic. ”
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“ He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic. ”
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“ The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must. Its very nobility makes the results of its breakdown doubly horrifying, and it breaks down, as it always will, not by some external agency but because it cannot work. ”
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“ It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children. ”
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“ Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in. ”
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“ There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones. ”
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“ The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must. Its very nobility makes the results of its breakdown doubly horrifying, and it breaks down, as it always will, not by some external agency but because it cannot work. ”
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“ I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root. ”
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“ Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics. ”
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“ A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night and then as its mausoleum. ”
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“ I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other. ”
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“ How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear. ”
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