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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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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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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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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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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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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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