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Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail…
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People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.
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Many men think they're playboys, but they invariably land wide of the mark. Surrounding yourself with champagne, fast friends, and paid escorts…
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Branding experts believe that just because they have rethought a company's image or name, the rest of us will automatically fall in…
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Life is all about seating and lighting.
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We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the…
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After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately…
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As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.
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Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
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Je me sens vraiment entre amis. (I feel that I am truly among friends.)
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?' "Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.
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I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really…
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It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch, saying that…
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I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk…
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