At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning … - Frederic Raphael

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Each human being was given two qualities: power and the gift. Power directs us towards our destiny; the gift obliges us to share with others what is best in us.

Frederic Raphael

At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.

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Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.

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Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.

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The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.

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As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

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Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

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Each human being was given two qualities: power and the gift. Power directs us towards our destiny; the gift obliges us to share with others what is best in us.

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Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.

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I'm not active in politics. I vote as a citizen, and if somebody cares to know what my opinion is at the time of the election, I might or might not share it publicly.

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There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s in the future. I’ll stick to the present.

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