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  • Success is feminine and like a woman; if you cringe beforeher shewill override you. Sotheway totreat her is to show her the back of your hand. Then maybe she will do the crawling.

    -William Harrison Faulkner
      Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

  • Cultural Cringe.

    - ArthurAngell Phillips
      On Australia's reliance on British cultural values. In Meanjin.

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