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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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That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough…
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That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about…
— Will Schwalbe
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Among other things, [books by Bruce Doyle III and Mike Hernacki] explain the importance of the "winning attitude" I have been urged…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids…
— Jon Scieszka
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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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No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.
— Daphne du Maurier
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There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.
— William Hazlitt
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