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Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.
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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
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The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.
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There is one story and one story only.
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Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't…
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The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War to end,…
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We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like this: English…
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The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties…
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No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation…
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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
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To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should…
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Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or…
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Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't…
— Robert Graves
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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
— Robert Hughes
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Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.
— Don DeLillo
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I mean to say, really, I am near to developing a neurosis - is there anyone around who doesn't want to study…
— Gail Carriger
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I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.
— David Nicholls
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Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.
— Jonathan Raymond
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With all profound love poured generously over Family, Religion and Nation, Humanity is left in lurch only to be conferred with a…
— Anuj Somany
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With all profound love poured generously over Family, Religion and Nation, Humanity is left in lurch only to be conferred with a…
— Anuj Somany
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