I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
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One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
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The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner. From my mother's sleep, I fell into the State, and I hunched in its belly until my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died, they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
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If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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