John Bayley quotes
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“The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner.”
-- John BayleySource : John Bayley (1999). “Iris and the friends: a year of memories”, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
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“Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works.”
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“One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.”
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“Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.”
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Source : Anthony De Jasay (2014). “Against Politics: On Government, Anarchy and Order”, p.49, Routledge
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Source : Ann Romney addresses the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.npr.org. August 28, 2012.
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“Our ego is our silent partner...too often with a controlling interest.”
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