Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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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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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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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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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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