“Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.”
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There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.