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Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.


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PAUL FARMER The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife,...
PAUL GASCOIGNE The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades,...
PAUL FARMER Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of des...
PAUL RICœUR Speaking personally as a filmmaker, I think encoded in Bond are a series of values about Britain, ab...
PAUL GREENGRASS Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from ...
PAUL RUDNICK I think I am typical in believing that the Peace Corps trained us brilliantly and then did little mo...
PAUL THEROUX Brighton gives me the heebie-jeebies. When I'm near the seafront I can't sleep, I can't ...
PAUL MCGANN I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a ...
PAUL NURSE