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We need cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

Gilbert Adair
Cancer, Needs, Disease
Gilbert Adair (1986). “Myths & memories”, HarperCollins

All isms end in fascism.

Gilbert Adair
Isms, Politics, Ends

The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.

Gilbert Adair
Blessed, Feet, Giving

The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes.

Gilbert Adair
Taste, Acquired Taste

There is fire and fire: The fire that burns and the fire that gives warmth, a fire that sets a forest ablaze and the fire that puts a cat to sleep. So is it with self-love. The member that once seemed one of the wonders of the world soon becomes as homely as an old slipper. Mathew and himself gradually ceased to excite each other.

Gilbert Adair
Sleep, Cat, Fire
Gilbert Adair (2014). “The Dreamers”, p.13, Faber & Faber

Love is blind but not deaf.

Gilbert Adair
Love Is, Love Is Blind, Blind
Gilbert Adair (2014). “The Dreamers”, p.66, Faber & Faber

In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ''haves.

Gilbert Adair
New York, Space, Rude
Gilbert Adair (1986). “Myths & memories”, HarperCollins

Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.

Gilbert Adair
Past, Principles, Batteries

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