To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
SINCLAIR LEWISSo that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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