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I love America, but I don’t like it.

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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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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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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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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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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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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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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Condemn Like Much Sin Unheard Well

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