Books - The Enemies of Promise

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• "There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall."
• "All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."
• "Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once."
• "Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising."
• "Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual."

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