You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
SINCLAIR LEWISOn the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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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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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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