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.
SINCLAIR LEWISFortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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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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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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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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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.
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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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