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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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If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather…
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It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a…
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I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by…
— Ernest Gaines
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I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I…
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I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative…
— Dana Spiotta
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When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things.…
— Peter York
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I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.
— Claire Danes
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I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what…
— Claire Danes
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the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon
— Elizabeth Bowen
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I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.
— Julia Quinn
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My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life⦠Not that I knew what I…
— Haruki Murakami
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Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am)…
— Noam Chomsky
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