Author Tony Skinner

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    The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own—that is, for his age—so as to be able even then to take pleasure in himself.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
    —Cornelia Otis Skinner (1901–1979)