Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe 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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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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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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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