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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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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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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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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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