Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhat is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues.
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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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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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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I have for myself no conceivable complaint to make, and yet for American literature in general, and its standing in a country where industrialism and finance and science flourish and the only arts that are vital and respected are architecture and the film, I have a considerable complaint.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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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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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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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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