Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
SINCLAIR LEWISParis is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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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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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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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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He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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