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"Miss Austen's novels - seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer - is marriageableness."
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"All around us were people I had spent ten years avoiding--shapeless women in wool bathing suits, dull-eyed men with hairless legs and self-conscious laughs, all Americans, all fearsomely alike. These people should be kept at home, I thought; lock them in the basement of some goddamn Elks Club and keep them pacified with erotic movies; if they want a vacation, show them a foreign art film; and if they still aren't satisfied, send them into the wilderness and run them with vicious dogs."
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"The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens " tax livestock " labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters."
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"Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!"
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"Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian."
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"Too much alleged 'fantasy' is just empty sugar, life with the crusts cut off."
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"Miss Austen's novels - seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer - is marriageableness."
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"Our streets are littered with university graduates holding paper certificates and looking for a way to enslave themselves again under a boss in the name of looking for a job."
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"The whole of Victorian literature done up in grey paper & neatly tied with string."
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"Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor."
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"Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity."
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"When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world I thank God I am alive."
Gratitude
"You have first an instinct then an opinion then a knowledge as the plant has root bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason."
Trust
"With the past I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now."
Present
"Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise."
Morality
"A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness."
Gender
"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey."
Health
"As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect."
Morality
"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."
Morality
"Things refuse to be mismanaged for long."
Order
"The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise."
Art
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