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

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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

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...

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...

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

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

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.

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.

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...

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

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.

No two persons ever read the same book.

No two persons ever read the same book.

No two persons ever read the same book.

No two persons ever read the same book.

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an...

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an...

Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the...

Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the...

Hard writing makes easy reading.

Hard writing makes easy reading.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty...

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty...

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you...

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you...

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people...

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people...