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If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.
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Across the Atlantic, commercial therapy of all kinds provides so many more comfortable outlets for people when they are under pressure. The…
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All brands, whether high-ticket luxury ones such as Cartier or Rolls-Royce or 'masstige' ones with luxe-y overtones but altogether more affordable, all…
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Tabloid discussion of bad children always blames baby-boomer liberals, careerist mothers and fashion-crazed Nathan Barley types who think it's all enormously funny.…
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Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.
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Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.
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Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.
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Fashion people think that the careful Nice companies are boring beyond measure. (Nice people think fashionistas look silly and should Get A…
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Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.
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Kate Middleton's a pretty girl who sounds nice.
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London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.
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One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.
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I'm at the borderline of my faith, I'm at the hinterland of my devotion. In the frontline of this battle of mine…
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