To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
SINCLAIR LEWISDamn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it’s still just work.
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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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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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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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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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