Paul Johnson Quotes
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The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.
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The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.
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There are no inevitabilities in history.
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Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.
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Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth.
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For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.
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Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.
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The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.