Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
SINCLAIR LEWISCuriously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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So that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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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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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods.
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
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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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The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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