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...oss the gallery I could hear Max belabouring a swarm of sycophants with his Recipe for a Renaissance. ‘At Maximillian’s there will be no minimalist shams brimming with light, space, air and understatement. No confrontations with a pile of bricks, a bunch of desiccated radishes, sheets of rusty corrugated iron smeared in bird shit, or spilt cans of paint. Nor will it be a...

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...r (which “takes place on 23 August”) is a smarandachian Fun Fair. When he shams the ton of moralizing stories (Uncle Faruk and the buttons), the hap...

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...s pure bullshit. This is why most of their marriages fail, or they are total shams. THE PATH OF SPLITNESS Chapter Six B: Civilization The Effe...

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...to great ones, and runs atilt against windmills, while everywhere colossal shams and abuses go unexposed, unrebuked. Is it because we are better at be...

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...dential order, should now be treated according to their true character, as shams and impositions, and supplanted by true and legitimate governments, i...

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...of art, there’s a hatred of literature—I mean of the genuine kinds. Oh the shams— 33 Henry James those they’ll swallow by the bucket!” I looked up at...

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...! Honour to the strong man, in these ages, who has shaken himself loose of shams, and is something. For in the way of being worthy, the first conditio... ...an- ing of our so glorious French Revolution this, and no other, That when Shams and Delusions, long soul-killing, had become body-killing, and got th... ...a great People rose and, with one voice, said, in the Name of the Highest: Shams shall be no more? So many sorrows and bloody horrors, endured, and to... ...y not the heavy price paid and payable for this same: Total Destruction of Shams from among men? And now, O Barnave Triumvirate! is it in such double-...

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... any other race the French have got rid of bogies, have “cleared the mind of shams,” and gone up to the Medusa and the Sphinx with a cool eye and a pe...

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...early every outstanding man out- side that little inner world of political shams and dodges, who has given any attention to the question, comes, on th...

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... demonstrated to the satisfaction of all true philosophers. Who were these shams and make-believe men? They were, in fact, people that had been dead f... ...erature, it grieves me to find, by p. 10, that the largest number of these shams, and perhaps the most uncandid, are to be looked for amongst “publish... ... deny it, and call a policeman, if you persist in charging them with being shams. Some differences there are between my brother and HIM, but in the gr...

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...ely Peace alone is fruitful. Anarchy is destruction: a burning up, say, of Shams and Insupportabilities; but which leaves Vacancy behind. Know this al... ... the Eater there comes Strength; out of the Unwise there comes not Wisdom! Shams are burnt up; nay, what as yet is the peculiarity of France, the very...

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...ignities, grandeurs, sublimities. Old Man. He hasn’t any to strip—they are shams, stolen clothes. He claims credits which belong solely to his Maker. ... ... poor things and much of a size; our dignities are not real, our pomps are shams. At our best and stateliest we are not suns, as we pretended, and tea...

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...y that their crowns were stolen and their robes of glori-ous memories were shams. However, he still said that it was a great pity he was not as they. ...

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...e recently been reading a book by Mr. Joseph McCabe called “The Tyranny of Shams,” in which he displays very typically this curious tendency to a sort...

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...loody, wasteful mess of a world war, with a resolution to end for ever the shams, the prejudices, the pretences and 153 H G Wells habits that have im...

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...they two looked at the world from precisely the same point of view, hating shams and affectations, happy in the things that were simple and honest and...

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...h the usual harmless mili tary and judicial titles of that old day of cheap shams and windy pretense— “The total want of all the usual courtesies of ... ...d beautiful building; massive, substantial, full of architectural graces; no shams or false pretenses or uglinesses about it anywhere. To the city, it...

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...—it can’t make a sham and a blunder anything but a sham. “It’s a sham, and shams have to end, and that’s the end of the matter.” He stood up resolutel...

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...ated, as the Statistics of Imposture advances, and so the manufacturing of Shams (that of Realities rising into clearer and clearer distinction theref...

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...ad better not trust a lance in a Scotsman hand, if he wouldna have all the shams that fret me beyond my patience about their ears.’ This was not exact...