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In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the poem, painting, play…

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Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add,…
I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact…
I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfill our minimum obligations not to cause pain, we have the right to kill…
The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad…
In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the…
The person who kills for fun is announcing that, could he get away with it, he'd kill you for fun. Your...life may…
The bull-fighter has merely demonstrated that he is a butcher with balletic tendencies.
To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed…

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To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for… — Margaret Barber
In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the… — Brigid Brophy
It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward. — Joseph Campbell
The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful… — Roald Dahl
A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive. — John W. Gardner

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