Quote #17

I put the words down and push them a bit.

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  1. Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
  2. Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
  3. A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.' Diary entry (March 1964), afte…
  4. Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
  5. He had no wish to obliterate anything he had written, but he would dearly have liked to revise it, envying painters, who are allowed to ret…
  6. You never find an Englishman among the underdogs - except in England, of course.
  7. It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists an…
  8. Please bear in mind throughout that IT IS MEANT TO BE FUNNY.

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