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“Mustnt grumble was the most English of expressions. English patience was mingled inertia and despair. What was the use? But Americans did nothing but grumble! Americans also boasted. I do some pretty incredible things was not an English expression. Im fairly keen was not American. Americans were showoffsit was part of our innocencewe often fell on our faces; the English seldom showed off, so they seldom looked like fools.”
—Paul Theroux (b. 1941)
“The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his ownthat is, for his ageso as to be able even then to take pleasure in himself.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
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