I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
SINCLAIR LEWISIt 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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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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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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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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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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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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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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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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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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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