Famous Irving Layton Quotations

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"Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party."
by Irving Layton
"Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. (On President Richard M Nixon)"
by Irving Layton
"In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination."
by Irving Layton
"Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon."
by Irving Layton
"When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing they are as clever as you."
by Irving Layton
"If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets."
by Irving Layton
"Idealist: a cynic in the making."
by Irving Layton
"My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied."
by Irving Layton
"Progress of a marriage: 'There was a time when you couldn't..."
by Irving Layton


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