Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
SINCLAIR LEWISThus 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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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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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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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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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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