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Bennett seems to be showing alarming signs of irony. I have always found that irony among the lower orders is the first sign of an awakening social consciousness. It remains to be seen whether it will grow into an armed seizure of the means of production, distribution and exchange, or spend itself in liberal journalism.

— Tom Stoppard Travesties (1974)

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An artist is the magician put among men to gratify — capriciously — their urge for immortality.

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