"I could use the company but I can't go through the pain of getting it."

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Source : Howard Jacobson (2010). “The Finkler Question”, p.38, A&C Black

Howard Jacobson

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“Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.”
“Indifference to one's own faith is no proof of tolerance. Loyalty to one's own is part of a larger loyalty to faith generally.”
“As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.”

Source : William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.284, Belford Bros.
“I believe America went wrong in terms of respecting the First Amendment, the state of free speech on American college campuses and on the media and in academia.”
“The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure.”

Source : "Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey".
“Literacy is part of everyday social practice - it mediates all aspects of everyday life. Literacy is always part of something else - we are always doing something with it. Its what we choose to do with it that is important. There are a range of contemporary literacies available to us - while print literacy was the first mass media, it is now one of the mass media.”
“I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.”
“All I want is to be more famous than anything or anyone.”

Source : "Patsy Kensit: super trouper" by Justine Picardie, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 13, 2008.

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