I love America, but I don’t like it.
SINCLAIR LEWISAnd that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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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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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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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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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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Emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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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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A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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One quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
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Writing is just work-there’s no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.
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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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