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 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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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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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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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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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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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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