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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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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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