"Better authentic mammon than a bogus god."

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Source : 'Autumn Journal' (1939) p. 49

Louis MacNeice

“I recently turned 60. Practically a third of my life is over.”
“Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention?”
“People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.”
“I love New York. I've always loved New York.”
“Any company run by unknowing and mechanistic minds is in jeopardy and faces a limited life. Specifically, the pursuance of policies that focus on cost reduction and a continued optimisation of the bottom line just accelerate progress towards sudden death”
“Laugh a lot. Never go a day without laughing at least once.”
“My grandfather invented the cold air balloon... But it never really took off.”
“There is no right language or wrong language any more than there are right or wrong clothes.”

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