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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.

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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
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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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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly 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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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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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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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