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- From: backpack@access.digex.com (Stuart Reges)
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- Subject: Re: mental bus error...
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 07:34:45 GMT
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- joneja@pluto.ecn.purdue.edu (Ajay Joneja) writes:
- >
- > Can anyone tell me the who "A" and "B" are in the following exchange ?
- [...]
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- A and B are Oscar Wilde and his American friend James Whistler (of Whistler's
- mother fame). From my Viking Library Portable Oscar Wilde:
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- "I wish I had said that," he remarked once, approving of one of
- Whistler's witticisms.
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- "You will, Oscar; you will."
-
- A few other good Oscar Wilde quotes:
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- Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.
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- To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars [I
- have heard this variant attributed to Churchill: We are all worms, but
- I believe I am a glowworm.]
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- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other
- people to live as one wishes to live.
-
- As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to
- take than to beg.
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- Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make
- itself artistic.
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- Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and
- discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are
- one's mistakes.
-
- It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at
- San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the
- attractions of the next world.
-
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- | | Stuart Reges (guest aRreSt?) backpack@access.digex.com |
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- | b p | Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable |
- | a a | truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid |
- | c c | effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her |
- | k k | sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire |
- | | to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore? |
- | | --Herman Melville, Moby Dick |
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