February 2012
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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is...
– Joan Didion
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I was living like Patrick Bateman. I was slipping into a consumerist kind of...
– Bret Easton Ellis
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January 2012
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December 2011
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There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and...
– Robert Louis Stevenson Essays in the Art of Writing (via Franklin)
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In the original [18th century London] coffeehouses nearly everyone smoked, and...
– Malcolm Gladwell
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Think of him as a heavy man yet thin, drinking a thin cool white wine with lips...
– Djuna Barnes on James Joyce (1922)
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November 2011
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It was very fortuitous that the [Boddingtons] brewery was in Manchester. To...
– Peter Jarvis, former Whitbread Beer Company CEO
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September 2011
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