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'I've been to India, Pyle, and I know the harm liberals do. We haven't a liberal party anymore – liberalism's infected all the other parties. We are all either liberal conservatives or liberal socialists; we all have a good conscience. I'd rather be an exploiter who fights for what he exploits, and dies with it... But we were liberals and we didn't want a bad conscience.'

'He might be a poor lover, but I was the poor man. He had in his hands the infinite riches of respectability.'