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I’ve been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.
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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be...
Quote #28812
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
Quote #10364
“Only a novel”… in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of...
Quote #20944
And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered...
Quote #11518
If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.
Quote #16442
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
Quote #10103
The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has...
Quote #17888
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent,...