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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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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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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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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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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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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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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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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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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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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain 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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