Do I Grow Cleverer With Age, Or

Considering The Importance Of Resentment In Our Lives, And The Damage It Does, It Receives Scant Attention From Psychiatrists And Psychologists. Resentment Is A Great Rationalizer: It Presents Us With Selected Versions Of Our Own Past, So That We Do Not Recognize Our Own Mistakes And Avoid The Necessity To Make Painful Choices.

I've Heard A Hundred Different Variations Of Instances Of Unadulterated Female Victimhood, Yet The Silence Of The Feminists Is Deafening. Where Two Pieties--feminism And Multi-culturalism--come Into Conflict, The Only Way Of Preserving Both Is An Indecent Silence.

There Is Nothing That An Intellectual Less Likes To Change Than His Mind, Or A Politician His Policy.

Childhood In Large Parts Of Modern Britain, At Any Rate, Has Been Replaced By Premature Adulthood, Or Rather Adolescence. Children Grow Up Very Fast But Not Very Far. That Is Why It Is Possible For 14 Year Olds Now To Establish Friendships With 26 Year Olds - Because They Know By The Age Of 14 All They Are Ever Going To Know.

Orders Can Be Benign Or Malign, But The Habit Of Obeying Them Can Become Ingrained.