Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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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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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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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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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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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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