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He was truly after an art in which the creator could be as intelligent as he liked, but in which intelligence must be transmuted entirely into form, so that no lumps of thinking are left showing.

— 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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The best comedy is always heartless, an alternative to rational emotion.

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