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- Nov 07, 2020
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- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artless fairy stories enchant us in our first years and retain their hold on us until our last.
- British
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- Nov 07, 2020
Non-conformity has always been one of the great British virtues, and that includes non-conformity to things British.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
The terrorist isn't a problem because he doesn't conform; he's a problem because he does. It's what he conforms to that makes him dangerous.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The day I don't attend to my nostrils is the day I will have forsworn that world and become a different person. Someone otherwise preoccupied. Someone who couldn't care less what anyone thinks of his appearance - someone for whom the material life has lost its appeal.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Show me a university which is a hotbed of thin-skinned offence-taking, where every unacceptable idea is policed and every person who happens to hold one is hounded out of a job, and I will show you a university that isn't a university but an ideological prison camp and indoctrination centre.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know you are grown sentimental when you start counting the cygnets on the duck pond in the park to be sure none has perished since you counted last.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politically it's easy to salve one's conscience, no matter that salving it rarely makes the problem go away. You join the Labour Party, write articles attacking the privileged, give the money you spend on opera tickets to homeless charities, and vow never to go to anything that can be considered elitist again.
- Opera
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- Nov 07, 2020
What isn't for everybody shouldn't be for anybody: the world's opera houses are the reasons we have cardboard cities.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, a writer's life alone can tell a story.
- Armenians
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Christian Armenian story was the Polish Jewish story. The efforts of the Armenians to stay alive in Musa Dagh chimed with those struggling to survive the ghetto.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a young man, I wooed, unsuccessfully, with Puccini. It's important to get your operas right.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leaned on by Turkey and understandably wary of false equivalences - for not every death is a massacre, and not every war is genocidal - Israel connives in Armenian genocide denial.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
The death of an Italian tailor might not be calamitous in Catania or Cagliari, but the loss to Soho is immeasurable. We don't have Italian tailors we can spare here.
- Rest
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally sympathetic apartments, watch the rents rise, the tarts leave, the small shops, production offices and design studios close down, and hey presto, we have another fashionable London suburb indistinguishable from the rest.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nostalgic myself, I am a sucker for other men's nostalgia.
- Exhilarating
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- Nov 07, 2020