The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
SINCLAIR LEWISI can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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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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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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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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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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