It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
SINCLAIR LEWISI can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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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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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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 trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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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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