Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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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Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
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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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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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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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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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You have more people that love you than you know.
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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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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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NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches 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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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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