“I don’t envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.”

"Answer to Eugene Jolas," Transition (March 1932)
How Writing Is Written: Previously Uncollected Writings, vol.II (1974)

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