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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Absurd Become Contentment Could Doubt Misery Regain Whatever World
NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Cannot Dodge Fact Now
There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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Assertion Being Endure Human Humor Imperlinent Insult Sense
I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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Conscious Die Drudging Life More Perhaps Sleep Think Tired
Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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Arrange Country Course Cruelty God Indeed Must Priest System Theology
I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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Drink Exactly Now Revolution Want
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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Careful Damm Executive Great Measure Men Merriment Run Shop Smile
Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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City Power Reclaim Vast Wander
So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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Do Industrious Iron Lazy Man Mayne Middle Pay Soul War Weel
A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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Brown Change Content Event Object Pocket Sensational Suit Warn
In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Cost Fact Humidity Initial Prohibition Thing Whole
Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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Beaten Bizzard Dispute Grow Hatreds Her Labor Make Most Nature Pleasure Politics Race Send Trouble Unnecessary War Warm Wheat
A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Another Drink Man Take
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Better Country Intellectual Know Other
The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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Aware Behind Cocktail Desire Devastatimng Exhilaration Fill Whirling
A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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Altogether Aspire Chief Country Ignorance Paint Pure Standardize Succeed Take Victorian Village

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