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If I could control Hollywood I could control the world," Stalin said, which was, like other of the old monster's apothegms ("How many divisions has the Pope?
Rise of the Rest by Wheatcroft, Geoffery / The American Conservative
Clive James, an author of numerous books of criticism, autobiography, and poetry has provided in this book 110 biographical essays of celebrities, intellectuals, tyrants, and writers whose apothegms have fascinated James his entire adult life.
Clive James. Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and ... by Levinson, Martin H. / ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
Discussing the Old Arcadia, he suggests that while Sidney's narrative is at one level a patchwork of sententiae, the work nevertheless attempts to narrate transformations of perception and understanding that cannot be contained by decontextualized apothegms.
Scenes of Instruction in Renaissance Romance by Kinney, Clare R. / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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