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These phrases run trippingly of the tongues of the extremely respectable.They think in terms of a sentimental ballad.And that's what terrifies you about them.It isn't their cruelty,it isn't even their shrewdness-it's their extra ordinary naivete.Everything in their whole bloody world is a cliche.Everything is born out of a cliche,rests on a cliche,survives by a cliche.And they believe in the cliches -there's no hope