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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.

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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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