Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe 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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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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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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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