I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
SINCLAIR LEWISTo be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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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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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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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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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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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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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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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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