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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.

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if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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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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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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