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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication."

"If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come."

"Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck."

"Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations."

"Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already."

"Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency."

"Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic."
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