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We’re tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We’re tired of always deferring hope till the next generation.

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It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
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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 love America, but I don’t like 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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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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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure–wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.
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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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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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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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