You have more people that love you than you know.
SINCLAIR LEWISThe 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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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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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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When 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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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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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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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