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The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance

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To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

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Wherever you go in life, you will feel somewhere over your shoulder a pink, castellated shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinacles of the Serenissima

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if there is one place in the United States where private styles make up for public images, it is San Francisco, where all lapsed lovers of America, even loyalists like me experiencing spasms of disillusionment, should be taken for refresher courses. The tides of all-American conformity beat vainly against the San Franciscan rock.

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To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music.

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The genius of Canada remains essentially a deflationary genius.

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