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Pressure does two things – bursts pipes and creates diamonds. Which one are you?
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― The Thin Blue Line: Perception is Deception
― The Thin Blue Line: Perception is Deception
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Reading his autobiography many years later, I was astonished to find that Edward since boyhood had—not unlike Isaiah Berlin—often felt himself ungainly and ill-favored and awkward in bearing. He had always seemed to me quite the reverse: a touch dandyish perhaps but—as the saying goes—perfectly secure in his masculinity. On one occasion, after lunch in Georgetown, he took me with him to a renowned local tobacconist and asked to do something I had never witnessed before: 'try on' a pipe. In case
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― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
