I think we must give up this superstition of company to spend weeks and fortnights. Let my friend come and say that [what] he has to say and go his way. Otherwise we live for show. That happens continually in my house that I am expected to play tame lion by readings and talkings to the friends. The rich live for show; I will not.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(See also Musee des Beaux Arts ) As far as mental anguish goes, the old painters were no fools. They understood how the mind, the freakiest ...
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When I finished Kevin Brockmeier's A Brief History of the Dead last spring I immediately did a search to see if the Coca-Cola Corp. had...
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