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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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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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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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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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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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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Barbarian Century Class Middle Prisoner Twentieth
The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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