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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Know Love More People You
The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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Conscious Die Drudging Life More Perhaps Sleep Think Tired
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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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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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Country Dozen Fictioneer Insane May Most People Person Poet Tradition Young
On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Anything Buy Customer One People
I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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Deliver Every Minister Presume Sermon Understand Week Why
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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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