“I think it's the whole impulse to judge and censor and euphemize, that is the enemy.”

— Martin Amis

"Political Correctness: Robert Bly and Philip Larkin" (1997)
Context: I think it's the whole impulse to judge and censor and euphemize, that is the enemy. … What fun, to feel superior to T. S. Eliot. And that's the impulse that I am suspicious of.

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