Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 56 epigram 55 Gustave Flaubert 55 ironist 54 philosopher 52 Roland Barthes 52 poetic prose 52 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 51 David Pittu 51 aphorism 51 Ambrose Bierce 51 freethinker 51 locution 50 rhetorician 50 sensualist 50 Heinrich Heine 50 Eric Hoffer 50 Czeslaw Milosz 50 fabulist 50 Know thyself 50 Slavoj Zizek 49 poet essayist 49 Friedrich Nietzsche 49 aphoristic 49 erudite 49 Michael Dirda 49 Theodore Dreiser 49 Satirist 48 philologist 48 perceptiveness 48 malapropism 48 poet philosopher 48 Antonia Fraser 48 orientalism 48 Today Birthdays Author 48 Bernard Malamud 48 Gunter Grass 48 logician 48 Rereading 47 transcendently 47 parodist 47 Rainer Maria Rilke 47 perspicacious 47 epigraph 47 Kertész 47 Arthur Koestler 47 subtextual 47 roman clef 47 Ozick 47 Charles Baudelaire 47 Wieseltier 47 Jamesian 47 empiricist 47 iconoclastic 47 contrarianism 47 ETA Hoffmann 47 profundity 47 omniscient narrator 47 controversialist 47 Martin Heidegger 47 Jacques Derrida 47 perceptive 47 Jean Paul Sartre 47 acerbically 47 Occam razor 47 perspicacity 47 Jonathan Yardley 47 Lao Tzu 47 Buruma 47 Proudhon 46 moralist 46 wordsmith 46 Arthur Schlesinger 46 Marguerite Duras 46 Hannah Arendt 46 Anais Nin 46 amanuensis 46 archly 46 grammarian 46 Niccolo Machiavelli 46 historicism 46 Ari Shavit 46 bon mot 46 compulsively readable 46 dramatist 46 Laurence Sterne 46 Blaise Pascal 46 Henry Hazlitt 46 epigrammatic 46 Bernard Henri Lévy 46 arrestingly 46 Walter Bagehot 46 Percy Bysshe Shelley 46 Irreverent 46 dictum 46 famous dictum 46 succinctness 46 casuistry 46 cri de coeur 46 humourist 45 paraphrases 45 Phyllis Chesler