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- An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
- Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
- Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
- What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?
- That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.