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A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.

— Penelope Gilliatt

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Russians have always been hugely concerned with ethics and hardly at all with conduct.

A State of Change (1967)

Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life.

Three-Quarter Face (1980)

Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film.

Three-Quarter Face (1980)

People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.

It would be unfair to suggest that one of the most characteristic sounds of the English Sunday is the sound of Harold Hobson barking up the wrong tree.

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