Sempre dei à política a importância devida e adio, sempre que posso, assuntos importantes. A relação entre a política e a literatura é demasiado óbvia para se pensar muito nela. (Há, dizem, gente que não consegue pensar noutra coisa.)
Escolhi este livro pelos aforismos e pelo estilo:
It is customary to say of Thomas Wolfe that he is an emotional writer. Perhaps: although it is probably not the most accurate way to describe a writer who could deal with but one single emotion...
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Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood...
Snobbery is pride in status without pride in function.
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Perhaps at no other time has the enterprise of moral realism ever been so much needed, for at no other time have so many people committed themselves to moral righteousness.
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