"The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all."
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"By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over."
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests."
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"That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers."
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"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."
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"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates."
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