In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
SINCLAIR LEWISSo that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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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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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.
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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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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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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.
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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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