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Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And yours is a democracy, a dictatorship of the Wad.
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Ripe for romance? Is that not only the self-conscious and sensitive young man's way of saying he was heavy with passion? Is not, perhaps, romance only the fiction by means of which the tender-minded negotiate their lust?
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No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life.
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Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.
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We all desire to be understood, but no one enjoys being obvious.
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You can gain experience, if you are careful to avoid empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boasts of twenty years experience in craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience–twenty times. And never resent the advantage of experience your elders have. Recall that they have paid for this experience in the coin of life, and have emptied a purse that cannot be refilled.
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The rope connecting two men on a mountain is more than nylon protection; it is an organic thing that transmits subtle messages of intent and disposition from man to man; it is an extension of the tactile senses, a psychological bond, a wire along which currents of communication flow.
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Trevanian
Born:
June 12, 1931
Died:
December 14, 2005
(aged 74)
Bio:
Rodney William Whitaker was an American film scholar and writer who wrote several successful novels under the pen name Trevanian.
Known for:
Shibumi (1979)
The Eiger Sanction (1972)
The summer of Katya (1983)
The Loo Sanction (1973)
The crazyladies of Pearl Street (2005)
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