with their great deadweight of pettiness and selfishness and meanness of every kind. And the few have to carry it all. The doctors and the teachers and the artists – not that they haven’t their traitors, but what hope there is, is with them
As I’ve found with a number of novels I loved as a youngster and have re-read (many) years later, The Collector is not as deep and profound as I found it in callow youth. But this quote, in our current world of wilful ignorance and terrifying populism, still feels important.
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