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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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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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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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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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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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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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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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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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.
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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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