"Shakespeare would have known how he spoke. Tolstoy would have known. I didn't know because, for all my parlour socialism, I was a snob. I didn't know how anybody spoke, except public-school boys and neurotic bohemians."
He's being silly and funny and self aware in a book about the film industry in the 1930s whilst fascism is on the rise this was made for me
— Apr 12, 2026 03:32AM
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