#great number

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

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I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

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