More Quotes From ACKROYD (The Novel, Not the Actor)

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He fits into his mood changes

as if they are custom-made.

Whatever the  emotion

it looks right on him.

That, I suppose,

is a description of class.
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Most men are unable

to work together

beyond a certain level

of mediocrity...

to exceed that level

is to declare yourself

an enemy of your fellow worker

and therefore an exile,

open to envy, suspicion,

subversion and attack.
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This is a country
where you can land in the brig

for cigarette smuggling

and get promoted into

the high command for smuggling

weapons to the enemy.
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Intimidation is modern man's

last viable weapon against being

devoured by his loved ones.
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"When Warhol paints

it is not to make art

but to make

the cover of Time."

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Jules Feiffer 

(1977) 
  

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