I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
SINCLAIR LEWISGood Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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