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Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-makin...

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The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with...

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Geoff DyerWorking the Room: Essays and Reviews: 1999-2010

Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies ...

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The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.

Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything.

A man who writes a book, thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind; he supposes that ...

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Don't you know about the praying mantis that waved its arms angrily in front of an approaching carri...

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