Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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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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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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