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Nostalgia, the vice of the aged.


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In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.



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Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.



I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.



I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.



I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.



What a joy it is to dance and sing!

What a joy it is to dance and sing!



Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.



We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.



Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.



If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.





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