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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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Board Country High Make Mind Mountain Myth Necessary One Our Favorite Plain Purpose
It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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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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Drink Exactly Now Revolution Want
In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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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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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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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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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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