Injury Time: A MemoirPimlico, 2003 - 183 Seiten D.J. Enright died soon after putting the finishing touches to this memoir and commonplace book in which he muses upon his own condition and that of the world he knows he is leaving. With humanity and wit, he contemplates literature, manners, morals, people and the English language. |
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... True , believing something may help to make it come true . It's harder , no doubt , to think favourably of mankind . You don't need a splenetic temper , merely access to the media , whose servants know that vice has far more to offer ...
... True , believing something may help to make it come true . It's harder , no doubt , to think favourably of mankind . You don't need a splenetic temper , merely access to the media , whose servants know that vice has far more to offer ...
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... true : the poetry of the German language is of the essence of Goethe ' . The idea strikes me as interesting , not to say arcane , but not quite real . Hölderlin is eminently translatable , so is a fair amount of Heine , the same ( or ...
... true : the poetry of the German language is of the essence of Goethe ' . The idea strikes me as interesting , not to say arcane , but not quite real . Hölderlin is eminently translatable , so is a fair amount of Heine , the same ( or ...
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... True civilization doesn't lie in gas , or in steam , or in table - turning . It lies in the diminution of the traces of original sin . ' The tendency of Baudelaire's thought is clear , says Eliot , though ' it is not quite clear exactly ...
... True civilization doesn't lie in gas , or in steam , or in table - turning . It lies in the diminution of the traces of original sin . ' The tendency of Baudelaire's thought is clear , says Eliot , though ' it is not quite clear exactly ...
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