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I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.


Vera Brittain

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IAN HUNTER My father was a graduate student at Oxford in the early 1960s, where the conventions and etiquette o...
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KENNETH GRAHAM The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half a...
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The vai...
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PATRICK ROTHFUSS Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
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CAMERON STRACHER The rules only applied to
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B...
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VERA WANG Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot...

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VERA NAZARIAN I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes...
VERA NAZARIAN The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled...
VERA WANG Here's a funny question:

What is your favorite word?

Think about it—maybe it...
VERA NAZARIAN Luck is not as random as you think.

Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone h...
VERA NAZARIAN Ice is most welcome in a cold drink on a hot day.

But in the heart of winter, you want a ...
VERA NAZARIAN Snowflakes swirl down gently in the deep blue haze beyond the window. The outside world is a dream.<...
VERA NAZARIAN I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, the...
VERA WANG I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't und...
VERA FARMIGA Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fac...
VERA NAZARIAN A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of a...
VERA NAZARIAN Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someo...
VERA NAZARIAN When you wake up from a dream you have only a few precious moments before the details of the dream b...
VERA NAZARIAN Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it?

Karma is not...
VERA NAZARIAN Incidentally, the world is magical.
Magic is simply what's off our human scale... at the...
VERA NAZARIAN Today is an ephemeral ghost...

A strange amazing day that comes only once every four year...
VERA NAZARIAN Since the dawn of existence, you mortals have feared dying, feared the unknown and the pain o...
VERA NAZARIAN Gift giving is a true art.

1. You need to understand the person to whom you intend to giv...
VERA NAZARIAN Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.

But what about your true n...
VERA NAZARIAN We are all glorified motion sensors.

Some things only become visible to us when they unde...
VERA NAZARIAN [Then she moved into the eveningwear, fragrance and tabletop categories. This is only her second yea...
VERA WANG Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shap...
VERA NAZARIAN What a strange thing it is to wake up to a milk-white overcast June morning! The sun is hidden by a ...
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