People read fiction for emotion-not information
SINCLAIR LEWISThere 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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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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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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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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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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The world and all its wisdom is but a booby, blundering school-boy that needs management and could be managed.
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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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