I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
SINCLAIR LEWISParis is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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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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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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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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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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