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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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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we’ll be funnier to look at than to read.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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There 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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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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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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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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