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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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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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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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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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