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Peace is only better than war if peace is not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

— Walker Percy The Second Coming (1980)

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There is no fashion so absurd, even grotesque, that it cannot be adopted, given two things: the authority of the fashion-setter (Dior, Jackie Onassis) and the vacuity or noughtness of the consumer.

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Oh the crap that lies lurking in the English soul. Somewhere it, the English soul, received an injection of romanticism which nearly killed it.

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What a man can be the next minute bears no relation to what he is or what he was the minute before.

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life.

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As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.

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