“Ja, herr pastor, jag förlåter dem, men icke mig själv! Att sysslolösa fruntimmer roa sig med välgörenhet, det är förlåtligt, det är bra, men att de kalla detta en vacker handling som blott är ett nöje, ett nöje större än andra genom den retelse som offentligheten, den största offentlighet som finns, nämligen publikationen i tryck, kan skänka den, det är skamligt.”
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“Meanwhile the ceaseless requirements of the entertainment industry also threaten to deprive us other forms of critical style and of the means of appreciating them. To be called 'satirical' or 'ironic,' is now to be patronized in a different way. The satirist is the fast-talking cynic, and the ironist merely sarcastic or self-conscious and wised up. When a precious and irreplacable word like 'irony' has become a lazy synonym for 'anomie,' there is scant room for originality.”
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
“Incompetence was Kingley's béte noire, not incompetence performed in private but incompetence paraded in public”
― The Black Cloud
― The Black Cloud
“I repeat, crime is too common a refuge for such untalented, impatient and greedy nonentities”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
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