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Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.
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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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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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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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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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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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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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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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?
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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers – they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.
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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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