It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.
UPTON SINCLAIRHuman beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure – such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
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Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church’s opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
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Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
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All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.
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You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
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The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.
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I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
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I am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing; a trust in the good faith of the process which created and sustains me. That process I call God.
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But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.
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I just put on what the lady says. I’ve been married three times, so I’ve had lots of supervision.
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We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.
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The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others, . . . the American way.
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You don’t have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn’t like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I’ve been trying to change it ever since.
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