Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women. - V. S. Pritchett

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In the culture we live in, there's this pervasive, shared agreement that there's a certain body type to admire, and it isn't actually based on anything real or substantive.

V. S. Pritchett

Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.

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Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

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It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?

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The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.

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It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.

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