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- Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking…
- There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander aimlessly. The second…
- I had reached the conclusion myself that sex was not a division but a continuum, that almost nobody was altogether of one sex or another,…
- The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment or seduction from the past,…
- The language of economics is seldom limpid, but in H Street they usually manage to remove from it the very last flickering colophon of charm.
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