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If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is.
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How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.
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We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Kingsley Amis
Born:
April 16, 1922
Died:
October 22, 1995
(aged 73)
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