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21 " bohemian’s ability not to worry about money always starts with your money rather than his.) "
― Clive James , Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
22 " And above all, I am not interested enough in politics to let them encumber my last days. —DRIEU LA ROCHELLE, "
23 " There are no genres, there are only talents. —JEAN-FRANÇOIS REVEL, LE VOLEUR DANS LA MAISON VIDE, P. 311 "
24 " Any writer who finds the height of human absurdity outside himself must find the wellspring of human dignity inside, and so lose the world. "
25 " Luxury is a necessity that starts where necessity stops. —COCO CHANEL (ATTRIB.): "
26 " Man and Superman: “the audience gets an exhausting idea of the inexhaustibility of the subject, and is bored brilliantly. "
27 " Aron’s conclusion was an epigram: “Peace impossible, war unlikely. "
28 " Because the trivial concerns oneself, one fails to see it might be boring. "
29 " the liberal believes in the permanence of humanity’s imperfection, he resigns himself to a regime in which the good will be the result of numberless actions, and never the object of a conscious choice. Finally, he suscribes to the pessimism that sees, in politics, the art of creating the conditions in which the vices of men will contribute to the good of the state. —RAYMOND ARON, L’OPIUM "
30 " Communist interpretation is never wrong. Logicians will object in vain that a theory which exempts itself from all refutations escapes from the order of truth. —RAYMOND ARON, L’OPIUM "
31 " Orpheus, with immaculately cut pleated trousers instead of a toga, was played by Jean Marais, Cocteau’s young lover. The leading actress, Maria Casares, was Albert Camus’s mistress. "
32 " history is the story of liberty becoming conscious of itself. "
33 " What do you mean, speak louder? If I could speak louder, I wouldn’t need a telephone. "
34 " A LL THE ENTRIES in Freud’s diary of his last decade are short. Very few are more than one line long. "
35 " Tom Stoppard was refreshingly candid when, after the successful premiere of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, he was asked what the play was about: “It’s about to make me a lot of money. "
36 " Tyrants conduct monologues above a million solitudes. —ALBERT CAMUS, THE REBEL "
37 " have been at a great feast of languages,” says Moth, “and stolen the scraps.”) "
38 " We shouldn’t call a critic a murderer just because it is his duty to sign death certificates. —MARCEL REICH-RANICKI, DIE ANWALTE DER LITERATUR, "
39 " Peacock in real life undid Shelley’s vegetarianism by waving a steak under his nose when he fainted, "
40 " How well he’s read, to reason against reading! "