If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay in solid cash the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. (Aldous Huxley)

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay in solid cash the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

Aldous Huxley

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