If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash

Aldous Huxley
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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 (2000). Complete Essays: 1926-1929, Ivan R Dee
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