People read fiction for emotion-not information
SINCLAIR LEWISVast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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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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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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