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.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhen fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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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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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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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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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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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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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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