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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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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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Board Country High Make Mind Mountain Myth Necessary One Our Favorite Plain Purpose
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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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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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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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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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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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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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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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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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don’t wish to do.
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