“ War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism. ”
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“ Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic. ”
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“ Americans like to make money: Canadians like to audit it. I know no country where accountants have a higher social and moral status. ”
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“ It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. ”
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“ It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition. ”
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“ The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. ”
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“ Americans like to make money: Canadians like to audit it. I know no country where accountants have a higher social and moral status. ”
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“ Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics. ”
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“ We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours. ”
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“ Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration... Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony; colonial in psychology as well as in mercantile economics. ”
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“ Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics. ”
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“ It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. ”
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“ In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. ”
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“ It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. ”
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“ We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours. ”
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“ Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics. ”
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“ Americans like to make money: Canadians like to audit it. I know no country where accountants have a higher social and moral status. ”
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“ Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration... Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony; colonial in psychology as well as in mercantile economics. ”
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“ It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. ”
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“ It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition. ”
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“ A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas. ”
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“ It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. ”
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“ A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas. ”
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“ Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of "quaint," and cultivated people become interested in it, and finally it begins to take on the archaic dignity of the primitive. ”
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“ A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas. ”
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