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When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
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I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!
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In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
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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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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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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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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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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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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.
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I love America, but I don’t like it.
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