Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
From Florence King
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.
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