To us, the high-resounding isms to which our contemporaries ask us to give our allegiance, now, in 1948, are all equally futile bound to be betrayed, defeated, and finally rejected by men at large, if containing anything really noble bound to enjoy, for the time being, some sort of noisy success if sufficiently vulgar, pretentious and soul-killing to appeal to the growing number of mechanically conditioned slaves that crawl about our planet, posing as free men all destined to prove, ultimately, of no avail.
Quotes about soul-killing (2 Quotes)
In my 20s some of my work for children was published by Macmillan. However, I was 27 before my adult novel... was taken by DAW Books in the USA. This enabled me finally to stop doing stupid and soul-killing jobs, and start working day and night as a professional writer.