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“In the great libraries professors studied ways of doing away with books; politicians proclaimed reading and writing unnecessary and therefore illegal, for the action of written words on the human brain might induce thought, a subversive process certain to incite rebellion at robot leadership. All the knowledge required for the soldier generation could be pumped in by loudspeaker; eyes must be saved for target practice, hands preserved for bayonets. Why allow an enemy bomb to blast our accumulated culture when we can do it ourselves by government process?”
― Dawn Powell, The Wicked Pavilion

“Jealousy lasts forever. Bad news for the young.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Good Apprentice

“Oh, they weren't notions like yours, they were notions like mine, all spasm, sweat and trembling, without an atom of common sense or lucidity. But they were the best I had.”
― Samuel Beckett, Molloy

“Singing is of course a form of aggression.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea