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All sorrows can be born if you put them into a story. Said Isak Dinesen.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car. Said Kenneth Tynan.

The Republicans are as wicked as they are stupid, which is a saying a great deal. Said Bertrand Russel after a visit.

The feminist character in Ibsen Rosmersholm whose name Cicily Isabel Fairfield borrowed as a pseudonym-to become Rebecca West.

Adolf Eichmann read Lolita while awaiting trial in Jerusalem. And was indignant over what he termed its unwholesomeness.

Everything vital in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded religions and composed our masterpieces. Said Proust.

Luther. Erasmus. Thomas More. John Wesley. Calvin. All of whom believed unconditionally in the powers of witches - and most of whom approved their execution. Luther indeed having burned several at Wittenberg.

Sophocles in old age, on finally being free from sexual urgings: Like escaping from bondage to a raving maniac.