We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
SINCLAIR LEWISIs it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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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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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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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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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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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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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