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Evelyn Waugh famously observed that ever since the Church stopped defrocking priests for sodomy, it has been difficult to find good proofreaders. -- … quotes/344

To return to Graham Greene's analogy between Tolstoy and Proust, the most striking contrast between these great novelists is evident in Tolstoy's superior … quotes/181

But even if change is inevitable, that portion of change that is the result of human thought and decision is susceptible to moral evaluation. Change is … dalrymple/11

The tattoo is thus to the modern bourgeois what playing shepherdess was to Marie Antoinette. -- New Criterion, June 18, 2000 http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/18/jun00/tattoo.htm dalrymple/8

One cannot but feel sorrow for people who think that by permanently disfiguring themselves they are somehow declaring their independence or expressing … dalrymple/7

That a person's individuality should be made to depend upon so crude an outward sign as a tattoo is in fact an indication of the fragility of that person's … dalrymple/6