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“Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.”
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“Gratification kills desire. And constant gratification kills it permanently”
― Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey Into Manhood and Back Again
― Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey Into Manhood and Back Again
“Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.”
― A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
― A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
“Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.”
― The Hundred Days
― The Hundred Days
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