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A man who wants to find out who he really is should try watching the woman he loves as she dances the tango with a maestro.

— Clive James Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time (2007)

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The sure sign of a weak man who ascends to glory is that he can't tolerate having strong men around him.

North Face of Soho (2006)

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

Glued to the Box (1983)

Beyond a certain point - and that point is reached early - precision is what expressiveness depends on.

One of [Mann's] many reasons for hating the Third Reich was that it forced him to be a better man than he really was.

Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time (2007)

If it feels like a mistake before you go in, don't go in.

North Face of Soho (2006)

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
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