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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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Art Attic Booze Burn Businessmen Country Feeding Indistinguishable Left Literature Live Other Shabby Spaghetti Successful
There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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Assertion Being Endure Human Humor Imperlinent Insult Sense
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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Country Devil Live People Person Soul
So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Much Nothing Revolution Wait
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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Always Compliment Cruel Degree Fact Greater Jew Measure Regime Scientific Sillness Unpouplarity
To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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Being Blue Country Human Literature Palin Professor Something True University
The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Demand Disconnecting Hatred Intelligent Love More One Thing
Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Better Criticize Custom Love Much Think Yourself
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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Affection Discomfort Friend Greta Hearty More Nothing Old One Tendency
We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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All Cookies Ever May Sick Sicker Too
Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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Church Element Ponder Rarely Respectable Service Theology Theory Upon Worst
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Anything Buy Customer One People
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Clear Cold Country Dead Literature Professor Pure Very
Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Come Country Fascism Flag Wrap
Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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Century Civilization Country Dedicate Impossible Inspiration Itself Salesman Suire Traveling Wisdom
Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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Beaten Bizzard Dispute Grow Hatreds Her Labor Make Most Nature Pleasure Politics Race Send Trouble Unnecessary War Warm Wheat

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