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A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the…
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The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the…
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In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.
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I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.
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How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though…
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Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.
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The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the…
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The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.
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How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though…
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This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had…
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As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.
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