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"It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed."
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"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."

"Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable."

"It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected."

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

"The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security."

"Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude."
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"Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven."


"The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion."


"The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception."


"The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion."


"The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again."


"He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest."


"Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away."


"Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction."


"The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses."
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