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It 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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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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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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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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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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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 must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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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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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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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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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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