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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.

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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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