Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
SINCLAIR LEWISAdvertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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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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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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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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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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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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