The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
SINCLAIR LEWISParis is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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In everything was the spirit of children’s play – not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
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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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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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