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.
SINCLAIR LEWISThink how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-‘fess up!
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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life’s dark clouds.
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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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To be ‘intellectual’ or ‘artistic’ or, in their own word, to be ‘highbrow,’ is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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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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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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Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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