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I love America, but I don’t like it.

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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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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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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When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, ’tain’t any laughing matter!
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Is 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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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