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...beyond Eisler there are a host of other men-fellow travelers, confused liberals, "totalitarian liberals" (see INTERNATIONAL), left-wing New Dealers-who owe muddled allegiance to the idea that government should be omnipotently responsible for the lives of its citizens even to the point of benevolent despotism. They fail to understand that despotism, which has a way of beginning with benevolence, usually ends by being merely despotic. Few of them even understood the incompatibility of their views with democracy, or that it is just such views which makes them so sympathetic to Soviet Russia. But the mass of Americans...
...have done a great disservice to American youth. . . . You owe each & every reader, and each & every American an apology...
...belong to no school, hard-boiled or otherwise, and I believe these so-called schools exist mainly in the imagination of critics. . . . [Writing] is a genital process . . . intra-abdominal. ... I have read less than twenty pages of Mr. Dashiell Hammett in my whole life. ... I owe no debt ... to Mr. Ernest Hemingway . . . Matterhorn of literature...
...thinking out their personal or national philosophy. Meanwhile, our fellow citizens in the world community are very articulate, explicit, and definite in their plan of action. We don't like the way they have achieved that definiteness by indoctrination from the top of a totalitarian government, but we owe it to our fellow citizens and to our convictions to use our free method of education to accomplish a result which can match the well-though-dictatorially-formulated opposition. If we really have the truth, we ought to be able to express...
Said Bilbo of the $3,000 he had borrowed from Abe Shushan to make a divorce settlement with his wife: "I still owe $2,250 on this alimony nightmare." The swmiming-pool bill and the Morrissey loan, he vowed he would...