patsies quotes

  • Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.

    - Lillian Florence Hellman
       Journal entry, 30  Apr. Collected in  An Unfinished Woman (1969), ch.13.

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