Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
SINCLAIR LEWISIf 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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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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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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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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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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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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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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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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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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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