Human 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.
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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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.
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I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.
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There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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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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Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.
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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art’s sake than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore – and then there will be time enough for art.
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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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