A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.

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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

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Congress - these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.

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Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

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Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.

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I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

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I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.