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Leavis demands moral earnestness; I prefer morality. . . . I'd sooner live among people who don’t cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.

— C. S. Lewis

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Source: "Unreal Estates", Conversation with Brian Aldiss and Kingsley Amis — in Spectrum IV (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965), p. 21
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