We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
SINCLAIR LEWISHe who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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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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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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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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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