He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
SINCLAIR LEWISAs 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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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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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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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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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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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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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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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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