"There is fire and fire: The fire that……" — Gilbert Adair
"There is fire and fire: The fire that burns and the fire that gives warmth, a fire that sets a forest ablaze and the fire that puts a cat to sleep. So is it with self-love. The member that once seemed one of the wonders of the world soon becomes as homely as an old slipper. Mathew and himself gradually ceased to excite each other."
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8 Quotes by Gilbert Adair
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The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes.
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All isms end in fascism.
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Love is blind but not deaf.
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