The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.
Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.
The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.
The educated can listen impassively to almost anything.
Laughter scares off lust.
Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.