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“Cannibalism too wasn't wiped out in a day - if it had been, what would they have done with the leftovers?”
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“The true elitists in the literary world are the ones who have become annoyed by literary ambition in any form, who have converted the very meaning of ambition so totally that it now registers as an act of disdain, a hostility to the poor common reader, who should never be asked to do anything that might lead to a pulled muscle. (What a relief to be told there's no need to bother with a book that might seem thorny, or abstract, or unusual.) The elitists are the ones who become angry when it is suggested to them that a book with low sales might actually deserve a prize (...) and readers were assured that the low sales figures for some of the titles could only mean that the books had failed our culture's single meaningful literary test.”
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“Even then she wore the look of certain fanatics who think of themselves as leaders without once having gained the respect of a single human being.”
― Two Serious Ladies
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