Gilbert Adair quotes
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“We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.”
-- Gilbert AdairSource : Gilbert Adair (1986). “Myths & memories”, HarperCollins
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“There is fire and fire: The fire that burns and the fire that gives warmth, a fire that sets a forest ablaze and the fire that puts a cat to sleep. So is it with self-love. The member that once seemed one of the wonders of the world soon becomes as homely as an old slipper. Mathew and himself gradually ceased to excite each other.”
-- Gilbert AdairSource : Gilbert Adair (2014). “The Dreamers”, p.13, Faber & Faber
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“Love is blind but not deaf.”
-- Gilbert AdairSource : Gilbert Adair (2014). “The Dreamers”, p.66, Faber & Faber
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“The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes.”
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“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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“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.”
-- Gilbert AdairSource : Gilbert Adair (1986). “Myths & memories”, HarperCollins
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“Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.”
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“The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation.”
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Source : A. B. Simpson (2010). “When God Steps In: Divine Resources for Life's Situations”, p.4, Moody Publishers
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Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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