All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

No two persons ever read the same book.

No two persons ever read the same book.

No two people read the same book.

No two people read the same book.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on...

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on...

At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it...

At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it...

If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row...

If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row...

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that...

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that...

No two persons ever read the same book.

No two persons ever read the same book.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there.

Intellectuals are not defined according to the jobs they do, but by the manner in...

Intellectuals are not defined according to the jobs they do, but by the manner in...

Intellectuals are not those who beat around the bushes and speak their mind with hitches...

Intellectuals are not those who beat around the bushes and speak their mind with hitches...

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual...

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual...

Don't ever let anybody teach you to think; it is the curse of the world.

Don't ever let anybody teach you to think; it is the curse of the world.

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.