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For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about artists beyond their immediate utility. Good movements will use a writer just as ruthlessly as bad ones; since they all fancy they have better things to do than worry about one man's artistic survival.

— Wilfrid Sheed The Good Word & Other Words (1978)

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Censors will try to censor a little bit more each year (because, like editors and other officious people, censors don't feel they are getting anywhere unless they are up and doing).

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As you approach the presidency, no one seems worthy of it, since it wasn't designed for a human in the first place.

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The desire not to destroy the palace but to move into it oneself has always been the occupational curse of revolutionaries.

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