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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.

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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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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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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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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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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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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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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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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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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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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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