Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a … - Kingsley Amis

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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

Kingsley Amis

Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.

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