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- Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only…
- A very beautiful young woman once asked me to sign her breasts. That was back when I was a hip young thing - it's been…
- Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.
- Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that…
- Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far…
- It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in the…
- Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands…
- Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via…
- Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions -…
- That tertiary education is under a sustained assault by a political and - it often seems - social consensus that equates all education with training…
- Mother sighed with exasperation. "Look, there aren't any "people in charge of death". When you die you move to another part of London, that's all…
- Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- I realize my mistake when I lost you in the crowd. I felt the pain n loneliness when I lost you. U… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes