“…the snarling, whining, pampered, analphabetic humanoids of Hollywood emerge as garbage irrelevantly gilded with adventitious photogeneity.”

—  Anthony Burgess

"Schmuck".
Non-Fiction, Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)

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English writer 1917–1993

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