“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own,’ or ‘real’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life — the life God is sending one day by day.” Letter to Arthur Greeves, Collected Letters
We must get rid of our arrogant assumption that it is the masses who can be led by the nose. As far as I can make out the shoe is on the other foot. The only people who are really dupes of their favourite newspapers are the intelligentsia. It is they who read leading articles: the poor read the sporting news, which is mostly true. "Private Bates" Present Concerns (1944)
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