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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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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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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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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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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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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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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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When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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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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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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City Power Reclaim Vast Wander
The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Condemn Like Much Sin Unheard Well
I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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Curing Give Heard Malaria Patient Syphill
Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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