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

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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.

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...

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

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.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

No two persons ever read the same book.

No two persons ever read the same book.

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.

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...

No two people read the same book.

No two people read the same book.

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

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

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.