Gilbert Adair Quotes

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• We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.
• The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes.
• The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's…
• In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not…
• All isms end in fascism.
• Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function,…
• There is fire and fire: The fire that burns and the fire that gives warmth, a fire that sets a forest ablaze and the fire…
• Love is blind but not deaf.

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