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I Do Not Know Whether To Be Delighted Or Outraged By The Fact That Literary Theory: An Introduction Was The Subject Of A Study By A Well Known U.s. Business School, Which Was Intrigued To Discover How An Academic Text Could Become A Best-seller.

I Say That Virtue Is Really All About Enjoying Yourself, Living Fully; But Of Course It Is Far From Obvious What Living Fully Actually Means.

If History Moves Forward, Knowledge Of It Travels Backwards, So That In Writing Of Our Own Recent Past We Are Continually Meeting Ourselves Coming The Other Way.

Those Who Sentimentally Indulge Humanity Do It No Favours.

Writing Seems To Rob Me Of My Being: It Is A Second Hand Mode Of Communication, A Pallid, Mechanical Transcript Of Speech, And So Always At One Remove From My Consciousness.