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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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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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I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want — and what I want now is a drink.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, “The trouble with this country is….”
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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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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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It isn’t what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
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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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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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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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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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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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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
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Illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature’s hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God’s marvelous firmament!
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn’t a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
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