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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.

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Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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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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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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I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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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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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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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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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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