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As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.
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There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best.


— 1962  The Golden Notebook,'The Blue Notebook'.

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The difference between the first- and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition it is a matter of a hair, a shade, an inward quiver of some kind yet what miles away in the point of preciousness!

william james

— To Henry Rutgers Marshall (7 February 1899)

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The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews, Not to be born is the best for man; The second-best is a formal order, The dance's pattern; dance while you can.

wystan hugh auden

— 1937  'Letter to William Coldstream, Esq', in Letter from Iceland (with Louis MacNeice).

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[Director Christopher] Nolan has not only crafted the best Batman movie, but arguably the second-best motion picture superhero narrative (topped only by the linked duo of Superman and Superman II ). For those who thought Spider-Man and X-Men had a lot to offer, wait till you see where this film goes. ... Batman Begins is a strong re-start to a franchise that deserves better than it has often been accorded.

james berardinelli

— Review of Batman Begins (2005)

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There's only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best.

doris lessing

— Anna Wulf (The Golden Notebook (1962))

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