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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.

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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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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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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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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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