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 LEWISI, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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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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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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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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