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A Small Man Can Be Just As Exhausted As A Great Man.

When The Guns Roar, The Arts Die.

Those Who Formally Rule Take Their Signals And Commands Not From The Electorate As A Body, But From A Small Group Of Men. This Group Will Be Called The Establishment. It Exists Even Though That Existence Is Stoutly Denied. It Is One Of The Secrets Of The American Social Order... A Second Secret Is The Fact That The Existence Of The Establishment - The Ruling Class - Is Not Supposed To Be Discussed.

The Writer Must Be In It; He Can't Be To One Side Of It, Ever. He Has To Be Endangered By It. His Own Attitudes Have To Be Tested In It. The Best Work That Anybody Ever Writes Is The Work That Is On The Verge Of Embarrassing Himself, Always.

I'm The End Of The Line; Absurd And Appalling As It May Seem, Serious New York Theater Has Died In My Lifetime.