Gilbert Adair Quotes

#1. In New York
whose subway trains in particular have been 'tattooed' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame
not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the 'haves.

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#2. The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes.

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#3. My little Matthew, Isabelle at once snapped back at him, when two people agree, it means one of them is redundant

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#4. All isms end in fascism.

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#5. We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

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#6. Love is blind but not deaf.

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#7. He was also terrified that he hadn't properly read the small print of their relationship. He forgot that true friendship is a contract in which there can be no small print.

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#8. The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.

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