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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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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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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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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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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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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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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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