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There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. – Rebecca West

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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. – Rebecca West

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Experience
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Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a persons mind. – Rebecca West

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But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. Its about character, its about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply dont see. – Ron Silver

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Intelligence is enormously sexy. – Frank Langella

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To the man-in-the-street, who, Im sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man whos untrue to his wife. – W. H. Auden

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People generally treat me like Im very intelligent and really, Im much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent. – Gillian Anderson

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One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, whats more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. – Aldous Huxley

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Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of. – D.M. Thomas

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