John Gross
John Gross
John Gross FRSLwas an eminent English man of letters. A leading intellectual, writer, anthologist, and critic The Spectator magazine called Gross "the best-read man in Britain", as did The Guardian. He was the editor of The Times Literary Supplement from 1974 to 1981, senior book editor and book critic on the staff of The New York Times from 1983 to 1989, and theatre critic for The Sunday Telegraph from 1989 to 2005. He also worked as assistant editor on Encounter...
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To have had a religious upbringing at least assures that in your own mind you are a Jew first, and the object of other people's dislike second
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Billions of dollars are going into hedge funds and other investment vehicles.
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At $1.75, some believed the market had reached its peak, and they said the same thing at $2. Now we're at $2.60 and nobody knows where the top is going to be.
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The catch phrase positively rejoices in being a formula, an accepted gambit, a ready-made reaction.
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My goal is either make something out of them or use them as is, ... I don't believe in destroying them.
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He has managed to capture the particular aura that made even the poet's more mundane activities-of which there were many-fascinatingly boring, so to speak, rather than merely boringly boring.
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He had more time to develop his talents, ... And I get the benefit of it.
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It does not look like the market will get into balance as quickly as people had anticipated.
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I think they're crazy. There are people that need places to stay and all they're talking about is Mardi Gras.