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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.

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Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
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The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
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To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.
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