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One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arrive with a book, but I almost never read it. It would be like sitting at their dinner table and opening a… Read More ›

Love

Love is staying up all night with a sick child – or a healthy adult.    David Frost Sir David Paradine Frost, OBE (7 April 1939 – 31 August 2013) was an English journalist, comedian, writer, media personality and television… Read More ›

Crawl

  You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.  Quentin Crisp (born Denis Charles Pratt, 25 December 1908 – 21 November 1999) was an English writer and raconteur. From a… Read More ›

Time

Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a… Read More ›