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" 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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" 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. "

" American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them. "

" Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it. "

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" Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. "

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